Back to the Arcade - Part 8 - Game Configurations

​Since I am running 35+ year old games on a modern LCD monitor we need to make some configurations to make the games look the part.  When installed natively on an LCD screen, the graphics are too sharp and not the way they were intended or designed.  As such, we need to ‘dumb down’ the image a bit to make it look more authentic. One of the main distinctions of CRT monitors are scanlines.  There is a great video on the topic on YouTube which I suggest watching.  I've provided a couple examples below, but my camera is having a hard time really showing the distinction.

No Scanlines

Vertical Scanlines

Not only are LCD monitors very high resolution compared to their CRT counterparts, they also do not have the ghosting effect produced by CRT monitors. 

Each of the emulators mentioned in an earlier chapter have different configuration settings to achieve these effects so that should be a consideration, along with which games you want to play when you decide which emulator to use for your project.

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