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From: Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org>
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Subject: Re: Donkey Kong's failing liver: What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 21:30:47 +0000
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On 2017-03-08 13:18:44 +0000, Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> said:

> En el artículo <HMA*ka7lw@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Theo <theom+news
> @chiark.greenend.org.uk> escribió:
> 
>> I suspect it would be possible to make a close analogue
> 
> Already been done - look at the "dodgy CRT" xscreensavers on *nix - also
> "TV test card", "Apple II", "Pong", "xAnalogTV", etc. etc.
> 
> Connect LCD, filter video output through "dodgy CRT" code, voila!
> authentic CRT display crappiness.
> 
> :)

Yeah, but the real arcade machine monitors still look better. 
Multisync, capable of going to 128x128 resolution. I have an original 
ArcadeVGA attached to a Hanterax - looked great, though I have recently 
lost the vertical sync and am not sure if it's caps or connector.


Cheers,
Ian