Somewhat related to those that would like to know more... Great efforts were made to extend the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella, to deal with the imperfections of

Somewhat related to those that would like to know more... Great efforts were made to extend the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella, to deal with the imperfections of CRT displays that games of yesteryear depended on. Ian Bogost, co-author of "Racing the Beam" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam), lead a team to make a code contribution to Stella that attempted to emulate the visual qualities that CRTs exhibited. "...In Spring 2009, I tasked a Georgia Tech Computer Science capstone group to modify Stella, adding settings to simulate the CRT behaviors described above. The group consisted of five committed and talented CS seniors: Edward Booth, Michael Cook, Justin Dobbs, Will Rowland, and Prince Yang..." http://bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator/ http://bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator/