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Re: Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal

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Post by NikkiA » Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 7:06 AM UTC

pdntspa wrote: post #32

I always hated the weird fuzziness, soft lines, and curved image that old TVs imparted on games, it is amazing to me that entire communities have been built up around it. When I started playing games on an emulator and pixels were hard and square and the image was actually flat, I was like YES!!

All of the retro shaders and things like cool-retro-term seem to overdo the curve too, making everything look like a 9" TV, when for me 14" was the most common size and much less pronounced curvature. The tail end of my CRT experience however was 19" and 21" Sony and Viewsonic flat tube monitors with trinitron masks and 36" trinitron TVs, so retro stuff never looks right.

Re: Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal

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Post by icedchai » Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 1:31 PM UTC

doublepg23 wrote: post #89

icedchai wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those monochrome monitors were very sharp. In elementary school, I had a friend with a IIe at home.

When I was born the Apple ][ was considered outdated but I had a teacher in HS who had a //e in the classroom and it's been my white whale since.

I grew up in the 80's, and the Apple II was basically everywhere in education! I remember we had a lab full of Apple IIe's. I had a IIc at home, but moved on to the Amiga sometime in middle school.

Re: Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal

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Post by doublepg23 » Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 7:58 PM UTC

icedchai wrote: post #92

doublepg23 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was born the Apple ][ was considered outdated but I had a teacher in HS who had a //e in the classroom and it's been my white whale since.

I grew up in the 80's, and the Apple II was basically everywhere in education! I remember we had a lab full of Apple IIe's. I had a IIc at home, but moved on to the Amiga sometime in middle school.

I was born in '97 so I grew up in the 00s and 10s.

I don't think I would have gotten into computers without Linux, the Internet, or the ease of PCIe - however I still appreciate being able to truly understand a computer from top to bottom like you can with old 8-bits. It's also really fun hunting for them online and meeting cool people.