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Game Tech Wiki has everything you'd ever want to know about CRT shaders (emulation.gametechwiki.com)
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An impressive effort has been made to replicate the exact appearance of old CRT televisions on modern LCD and OLED panels. The page I've linked is very well written.

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It depends. Graphics weren't spiky pixels as you can recall. That produced a far softer image, aside from scanlines and all the other stuff.

By now I can hardly play retro games from that time without shader, since the impression is auch a difference.

And I always was a pc player (from 8086/8088 on) and my consoles from mega drive on always used scart.

Still.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Oh I love the nostalgia of it all of course. But we couldn't wait to get rid of CRTs at the time is all. Such is life

[–] worhui@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

For me it was the fact that I couldn’t use my tv as a computer monitor, I retired my crt as soon as I could use it for both vga and tv

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I keep harping on this, but this is a massive regret - sure they were bulky and power hungry, but I would sell a kidney (not necessarily mine) to be able to buy a modern CRT to enjoy my old PS1 light gun games (Pount Blank, Ghoul Panic, Rescue Shot, Time Crisis etc.) again.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I agree!