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From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
Newsgroups: net.games.video
Subject: Atari Technology
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 20:32:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 20:32:00 1985
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I heard Atari used a Quadrascan tube for its asteroids game. What is this tube?
How is it technologically different from a normal scan tube. Is the game 
scanned? I thought it was vector. What about the color tubes that came after
it : like Gravitar , Space Duel, Black Widow ,Star wars. What I want to know 
is what kind of display technology is being used since I am impressed by the 
quality. Also did you know that BATTLEZONE used a 32bit bitslice processor
for matrix ops in the game. (source : Chris Crawford).