digitallounge.gatech.edu - 5/1/2009
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Atlanta (April 27, 2009) One of the main themes of Racing the Beam is the strong affinity between the Atari VCS and the CRT television. The system was designed around the TV and it interfaces with that display in an unusual and specific way. Yars\' Revenge Click on the link below to see the full ...
techradar.com - 5/4/2009
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techradar.com —
Students at Georgia Tech University have created a
CRT emulator to help educate today's kids about the
eye-bleeding, flickering hell-hole that TV gaming used to be. Professor Ian Bogost enjoyed playing old Atari 2600 VCS games using the Stella emulator but noticed that games didn't look quite ...
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Atari retro-gamers get CRT emulator
engadget.com - 5/4/2009
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engadget.com —
The retro gaming insurgence seems as strong as
vinyl these days, but you don't see as many
people looking for a CRT monitor to complete the set. More likely, they're playing a HD remake or the original title on a digital screen in more detail than ...
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Students create CRT emulator, hope to recapture that ...
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Making Vintage Games Look Like They Used To
Retro Thing —
... the free, open-source
Stella emulator to patch their changes into the main build, where the
effects will be available as a configurable option. Expect to see it
there shortly, where hopefully it will benefit players, creators,
educators, and archivists alike. Given that we'll be placing the code
back into Stella's repository, I'm also hopeful that this software
might be extended for use in other emulators for computer systems that
used televisions as their primary output."
Students Make Atari Games Look Like Atari Again ...
Students create CRT emulator, hope to recapture that analog gaming vibe of yesteryear
Engadget —
... The retro gaming insurgence seems as strong as vinyl these days, but you don't see as many people looking for a CRT monitor to complete the set. More likely, they're playing a HD remake or the original title on a digital screen in more detail than the ...
Atari retro-gamers get CRT emulator
Techradar - All the latest technology news —
... "it's hard to remember what a videogame image looked like on an ordinary television of the late 1970s," he says on his blog. "An Atari game played on a television would exhibit a number of visual characteristics that cannot be seen on an LCD display." ...
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