01 / SIGNAL BECOMES LIGHT

A picture, one line at a time.

Explore the hardware. Follow the beam. Play the game.

ASSEMBLED / 14-INCH COLOR CRTDrag to orbit · Scroll to zoom · Click a component

OMNIVOX

Building the instrument…

R G B ELECTRON PATHS

False-color teaching overlay · electrons are invisible

INSTRUMENT PANELLIVE

Original little game

ZENTRO VX-8

LIGHT CATCH0 / 10

Move a wide basket left or right. Catch 10 lights. No timer. No game-over.

Original code, shapes, bitmap letters and chimes. Nothing to download or import.

READYCARTRIDGE SEATED

Beam-writing laboratory

LIVE

262 lines · progressive game signalH 0% / V 0%

One clock drives the source, beam and phosphor decay. Slow mode slows all three. Pause freezes simulation time.

CAUSAL DISPLAY ENGINENOT SCANNED

Clear & trace selects a white signal and pauses before its first visible sample. Step to write real energy.

Serial video source Electron emission enabled

RGB

Horizontal deflection100%

Vertical deflection100%

Phosphor decay time22 ms

Hold game state; keep scanning

Sample clock0Deposited samples0Source X / Y—Landing X / Y—R / G / B current0 / 0 / 0Simulation speed1 / 1

Actual stored phosphor

Current is normalized. Magnifier shows the computed RGB triplets, not a photographed mask.

Receiver

OMNIVOX 2000

CHANNEL

Receiver volume40%

RF channel 3 · signal locked

CRT POWER SEQUENCE—

Shutdown behavior

Picture stable

HEATER

PICTURE

Cold picture: ~6–13 model seconds. Slow mode slows electronics too. Pause freezes the simulation.

Construction

Cutaway reveals real component relationships. X-ray and separation are inspection aids, not operating configurations.

Show electron paths

FOLLOW THE SIGNAL

From serial signal to phosphor.

Six new text chapters. Your game stays untouched.

Fictional hardware · reference-informed reconstruction

A picture, one line at a time.

OMNIVOX

From serial signal to phosphor.

An honest view inside.

Diagnostics

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