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Oh. 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.


They are appropriate for a late 80's EGA monitor. It looks a bit weird with VGA.


Not really, check this image of an original IBM CGA: 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.


This 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-... Third picture shows how it actually looked like on ~1985 hardware. Barely noticeable. By the time VGA hit the streets it was gone.


Having had one of those - appropriate sure, but accurate? No. They're super exaggerated.




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