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> But DOSBox is for DOS games, and to my knowledge, most weren't played on displays that looked like this. DOS games most certainly were played on CRT monitors
by xienze 8y ago
> But DOSBox is for DOS games, and to my knowledge, most weren't played on displays that looked like this.
DOS games most certainly were played on CRT monitors, it wasn't until, IIRC, 2000 that LCDs really became mainstream for desktop use.
> since almost all of the images shown are for games I actually played on a DOS computer using a SVGA display when young.
Being an SVGA display isn't relevant -- there were plenty of CRTs running that resolution and beyond. Perhaps you're thinking of something else when you say "displays that looked like this"? Otherwise I'm not really sure how to interpret your comment, because if you were playing DOS games at the time of their release, you were almost assuredly playing on a CRT -- unless you're talking about a 90s era laptop; those were LCD.
- kbenson 8y agoI'm referring less to the rounding and more to the way it's representing scanlines/interleaving of output, which while "signal accurate" isn't really "experience accurate", and if you're going as far as to emulate the rounding of the monitor, you really don't care what the signal was, you care what the person saw, and because of CRT bleed, that's far worse than some other display options (even repeating lines looks more accurate in some circumstances, I think).
- xienze 8y agoOh. Well I agree, CRT emulation does a pretty poor job of actually being representative of the CRT experience -- the scanlines are just so ridiculously exaggerated.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThey are appropriate for a late 80's EGA monitor. It looks a bit weird with VGA.
- badsectoracula 8y agoNot really, check this image of an original IBM CGA: https://i.imgur.com/M3gKlfA.jpg https://i.imgur.com/M3gKlfA.jpg The scanlines aren't visible. The most important "mistake" those filters do is that they apply a uniform shade for each scanline, but in all CRTs i have around here, the scanlines do kinda merge together when the colors are bright.
- rasz 8y agoThis looks like CGA card connected to composite monitor. Can you find any examples of those exaggerated scanlines on EGA monitors? http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?26680-EGA-monitor-wrong-colors http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?26680-EGA-monitor-... Third picture shows how it actually looked like on ~1985 hardware. Barely noticeable. By the time VGA hit the streets it was gone.
- abritinthebay 8y agoHaving had one of those - appropriate sure, but accurate? No. They're super exaggerated.