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BucketsofBuckets and Wannabehero, ya'll both made my day today! I'm glad you find genuine use out of the tileset, which admittedly was a bit of a gimmick in-line with other retro sets. I actually saw a 7 segment display set today too. An idea I had, but abandoned cuz it wasn't looking good. That one looks far better!

Date: 7/20/2018
To: Candy-Tech Industries
From: Raeborga Inc. Purchasing Official
Subject: CANDY-TECH VFD-45-80-std Order and Amber Color Options

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The CT-VFD-std was selected by our engineers for its durability and low costs. Our company is interested in brokering a manufacturing order with Candy-Tech.

Unfortunately, the current color options do not fulfill all of our needs. If your company can produce an amber colored display, Raeborga Inc. would be interested in purchasing 50,000 units.

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Date: 8/10/2018
To: Raeborga Inc. Purchasing Official
From: Candy-Tech Industries Rep
RE: CANDY-TECH VFD-45-80-std Order and Amber Color Options

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Our engineers have formulated phosphors which meet both the color requirements and our rigorous durability requirements. Tooling is complete and manufacture starts this work week.

Candy-tech is excited to have helped another customer. We hope to broker future deals.

Should any issues arise, please contact your Candy-Tech Rep.

Incidentally, are there DF players who routinely use a monochrome or grayscale palette?

I'll use a monochrome color scheme if I'm not using a graphics set. The default color scheme with default ASCII is a bit hard on my eyes.

Are ASCII graphics not retro enough for you?

Is the wonderful CRTEGA graphics pack not taking you back far enough?

Do you miss the time of do-it-yourself  rock 'n' roll  electronics?

Then our CANDY-TECH VFD-45-80 is for you!
Our efficient vacuum fluorescent display provides 200 lumens per character at 6V and 200 mA. At 45 lines of 80 characters (1080), each character a fun packed 7x7 dot matrix, the CANDY-TECH VFD-45-80 fits all of your DISPLAY needs.

The CANDY-TECH VFD-45-80-std operates on a single wavelength. 4 different color models can be chosen.

You can also get the CANDY-TECH VFD-45-80-col - supporting up to 16 colors!

There are two sets - 1 with inactive dots visible and 1 without inactive dots visible. Additionally, I add in 5 color schemes - a bright green scale, a blue-green scale, and the color scheme from Caves of Qud.

Without inactive dots:
CANDY-TECH VFD-45-80-std Color Options:

500 nm - (Blue-Green) :
2 Shades:
16 Shades:

507 nm - (Green) :
2 Shades:
16 Shades:

600 nm - (Ultra-Bright Amber)
2 Shades:
16 Shades:

618 nm - (Amber)
2 Shades:
16-Shades:

CANDY-TECH VFD-45-80-col Color Options:

Multi-Array VFD

Standard DF Color Scheme

Caves of Qud:

Experimental LCD Character Array
Not currently manufactured. Clients may request prototypes.


With inactive dots:

500 nm - (Blue-Green) :

507 nm - (Green) :

Caves of Qud:

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Note: I also like Vherid's Lazer and Ash color schemes with this set. Infact, my monochrome sets are heavily inspired by his Ash colors.

Some Goals next week: Mess with transparency options for the inactive dots to produce a slightly finer dot matrix.
Mess with the LCD character array color scheme.