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Videogame History Project Successfully Emulates CRT on LCD
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-05-05 16:50:10 273
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See old games how they were meant to look
By Tony Smith @ The Register
We thought fuzzy images went out with cathode ray tube monitors, but a team of boffins at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed an app that mimics the visual characteristics of CRTs on today crisp, pixel-perfect LCD screens.
And it's all been done in the interest of historical research, specifically the evolution of videogames.
According to GIT Associate Professor Ian Bogost, emulation software is all very well at allowing modern historians to examine old videogames, but they don't give you the true feel of playing an arcade game or 8-bit computer programme, all of which were orginally displayed on CRTs, either monitors or TVs.
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