First post, by Chaniyth
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Hi all,
I currently am using my beloved Sony Trinitron Multiscan CPD-E200L 17" .24mm CRT monitor [purchased it brand new back in 1999] for my 486 DX4-100 DOS and Win 3.x gaming rig, however it is TOO sharp for DOS games, you can see every pixel making up the sprites, etc, and that's NOT the look i'm wanting nor is it the look that I remember from the late 80's to early-mid 90's DOS games era.
I'm looking for a monitor that can also possibly "dither" or "blend" so that certain sprite shadows, lighting, and stuff like that don't have the "dot" matrix (not sure that's the proper term) look to them, don't show every individual pixel of the sprites or backgrounds, etc. So my question is, for me, what would be the best CRT monitor for DOS gaming; it needs to be SVGA, resolution doesn't need to be higher than 1024x768, would a .28mm or .31mm or higher dot pitch be what i'm needing? Possibly what year should the monitor model be from?
In this thead, jwt27 shows off an image of Prince of Persia and a few other games on a Hewlett Packard D2802A / Samsung SC-439VG however i've never ran across any of those models online or offline and they may not have been released here in the USA, so a simular alternative is needed.
In that same thread jwt27 posted some images so i'll post them here to show the look i'm going for...
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. 😎
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