I sometimes watch videos on repair and troubleshooting for old hardware, and happened on this Asteroids Cocktail table refurb yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9peQ7NmCqQ
The video itself is quite generic, but if you fast forward to about 28 minutes, they are using an oscilloscope connected to the X & Y outputs of the board to see the image, albeit in poor quality, on the oscilloscope.
I found this fascinating and a very interesting way to see the video out of this board and verify it has video output. Not sure if it would work elsewhere, but interesting nonetheless.
Re: Interesting use for an Oscilloscope
Posted: 03 Jan 2022 13:49
by stephen_usher
It'd work for any vector display but not for raster displays.
Re: Interesting use for an Oscilloscope
Posted: 03 Jan 2022 14:17
by rubber_jonnie
stephen_usher wrote: 03 Jan 2022 13:49
It'd work for any vector display but not for raster displays.
Yeah, that would make perfect sense.
Re: Interesting use for an Oscilloscope
Posted: 03 Jan 2022 14:40
by mrbombermillzy
@rubber_jonnie . If you like that, you should check out the osc. generated mushrooms vid:
There was also Quake too:
Re: Interesting use for an Oscilloscope
Posted: 03 Jan 2022 16:25
by rubber_jonnie
mrbombermillzy wrote: 03 Jan 2022 14:40
@rubber_jonnie . If you like that, you should check out the osc. generated mushrooms vid:
There was also Quake too:
Cheers, I'll have to take a look at those.
Re: Interesting use for an Oscilloscope
Posted: 04 Jan 2022 00:46
by UnderTheRain
Can't believe I hadn't see those before they're really cool
Re: Interesting use for an Oscilloscope
Posted: 04 Jan 2022 10:40
by rubber_jonnie
mrbombermillzy wrote: 03 Jan 2022 14:40
@rubber_jonnie . If you like that, you should check out the osc. generated mushrooms vid:
There was also Quake too:
Just had a look at these, I've seen the mushroom type stuff before, I think there was something similar on the CuriousMarc channel, but the Quake one is quite astounding, it's like Quake in the Matrix :)