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Is the borders around it necessary? Because personally I think that it would look great without the borders. Or is it to simulate the roundness of the monitor?
You can remove the border (and change everything else) in the settings.
Reminds of "Cathode" app for OSX: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ it seems they have an iOS version now too that lets you SSH to your servers. Also I believe the demo version would appear as tho the cathode screen was about to fail and get worse and worse.
Also many emulations fail with phosphor decay in very obvious ways. So it's not being done in a correctly at all. This cathode project is good, but many of these are clearly done by people, who haven't ever used the authentic thing and do not know what it should be like.
I remember that I laughed when people were talking about 25 ms TFT being slow. From good green / amber display you could still read text after 5 seconds since powering it off. ;)
I had one of these, lovely. http://sales.hansotten.nl/uploads/msx/monitoren/IMG_6798.JPG And this beauty is pretty modern one, because it's color display. With many older CRTs you had to use 40 chars per line, because image was so fuzzy that 80x25 would have been unreadable.
About noise, I have seen some extremely cheap and old VGA adapters generate so much noise and timing jitter into signal, that it looks like old TV even with modern dispalys. I got really baffed by it when I first encountered it.
Only problem with the Cathode app is that it flickers more and more till you get an epileptic fit if you don't upgrade to the paid version.
Sadly, the CRTs are dying off over time and it gets harder to find replacements that can work as well as they do. There are LCD alternatives, like Zalman, but they never impressed me much :-(
Looks like something out of Fallout. Awesome. Just the kind of thing you need on your Pip Boy.
Someone™ posted an issue last july that this exquisite piece of software retro art did not compile on OS X. After a while someone™ actually managed to compile it on OSX, and the original author is working on a port, but until then we have to make do with the Cathode app. Only problem with the Cathode app is that it flickers more and more till you get an epileptic fit if you don't upgrade to the paid version.
Someone™ posted an issue last july that this exquisite piece of software retro art did not compile on OS X. After a while someone™ actually managed to compile it on OSX, and the original author is working on a port, but until then we have to make do with the Cathode app. Only problem with the Cathode app is that it flickers more and more till you get an epileptic fit if you don't upgrade to the paid version.
In a modern world where we backlight semiconductors to produce high dpi screens, it almost feels weird to think we used to fire electron guns towards our eyes. I was always partial to the amber screen. Has anyone recently played with an old Asteroids cabinet? The screen is a black and white CRT. When you fire a missile, the screen effect is insanely bright. I'd forgotten just how intense that was. I can't wait until…
Asteroids was a vector game, interesting technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_%28video_game%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor
In my X-ray crystallography/structural biology lab we still use CRTs from over a decade old Silicon Graphics systems. They are the only displays that can do a 120Hz horizontal scan, which is darn critical when you are looking at protein and drug structures in quad-buffered stereo! Sadly, the CRTs are dying off over time and it gets harder to find replacements that can work as well as they do. There are LCD alternativ…
