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Atari Emulation of CRT Effects On LCDs

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-living-in-the-past dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A group at Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a fun little open source program to emulate the CRT effects to make old Atari games look like they originally did when played on modern LCD's and digital displays. Things like color bleed, ghosting, noise, etc. are reproduced to give a more realistic appearance."

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  1. Re:Overdid it. by aliquis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I was a kid you had to say the code and input out loud to a group of men executing in with small stones in the sand. They then shouted the result to the colleague who draw the graphics by hand with a filt tip pen and 10 pieces of plastic foil melted together over a candle. The graphics piece was then put into a projector with a light so hot it burnt a hole in the plastic piece while watching it and the process was then returned. Games wasn't invented yet, all we had where work and the plague. How did you win? By having all your friends die before you? No, death itself was the winning.