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Found a CRT monitor in my uncle's basement that still works for old DOS games
Went to help my uncle clean out his garage last weekend and spotted a 19 inch Dell CRT monitor from like 2003 under a pile of old newspapers. Plugged it in on a whim and it fired right up, no flickering or weird colors or anything. I've been trying to get some old DOS games to run on my modern LCD screen but everything looks blurry and stretched out. Hooked my old Windows 98 tower up to this CRT and suddenly all those pixel art games look sharp again, like they were meant to be seen. Anyone else keep a CRT around just for this one specific thing or am I alone on this?
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andrew79d ago
Suddenly all those pixel art games look sharp again" - that's like how we sometimes gotta go backwards to get better quality.
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wesley_hart9d ago
@andrew7 yeah it's wild how a technology from twenty years ago can beat modern screens for certain things. I read somewhere that CRT monitors don't have native resolution issues so old pixels map one to one instead of getting all smeared. It makes sense why retro collectors hunt these things down.
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