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Purchasing Arcade monitors.
bobbyb13:
--- Quote from: Mike A on July 19, 2021, 07:12:21 am ---Flat CRTs make classic games look like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
There are more than enough CRTs to feed this hobby until the people who really care are all dead.
There is no need for new CRTs.
I routinely buy working 19 inch arcade monitors for 100 to 150 bucks. 25 inch CRTS for 125-250 dollars.
If you can't find them where you live then drive out to Chicago with a van and fill it up with arcade monitors.
One trip and you never have to worry about CRTs again.
If you don't live in the continental US this could be a very different conversation.
Bobbyb13, you need to rent a canoe or something. Sorry buddy.
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Oh... tube envy-
Sadly (and comically) you are once again correct Mike A.
People out here had too much $$ during the CRT era apparently (and there are a lot of traditionalist people of Japanese descent here in the islands also) so most of the tubes I get ahold of are actually very nice Trinitrons.
Most totally usseless if not for Zebidee's work and some with only s-video, composite, or rf input anyway.
I need to learn how to rgb mod-
And the tubes that aren't Sonys are often Dynaflats.
Far better than LCDs obviously, but geometry is abit weird for some games of course.
Ahhhh.... the irony-
Infa Red:
Hey you know what's interesting (to me, cause I am new here) but when I "quoted" Mike A, the quote wrote the word sh&t out like its spelled while I was creating the post. Which I thought weird, cause I swore he wrote the --steaming pile of meadow muffin-- joke/analogy. Low and behold, when I clicked "Post" - it zapped back to the meadow muffin thing.
Pretty cool, I figure its a auto thing ? When you swear it replaces your curse word(s) with some funny related banter ?
Oh and @Mike A, sorry I missed that part, yes I am on the Arcade Museum place too.
PL1:
--- Quote from: Infa Red on July 19, 2021, 11:29:13 pm ---When you swear it replaces your curse word(s) with some funny related banter ?
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Yeah, that's Saint's sense of humor for you.
Try posting the next entry in this sequence: B2, B3, __. :duckhunt
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Infa Red:
--- Quote from: PL1 on July 20, 2021, 01:29:44 am ---Yeah, that's Saint's sense of humor for you.
Try posting the next entry in this sequence: B2, B3, __. :duckhunt
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Who is Saint ?
You know I have from day 1 had that option checked, and just now double checked and yes I have that option enabled to leave words uncensored. Yet, it is still censoring them I guess ? Weird.
PL1:
--- Quote from: Infa Red on July 20, 2021, 02:46:50 pm ---Who is Saint ?
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Saint a.k.a. John St.Clair is our gracious host who has been running this site since late 1997 and is the author of "Project Arcade".
He also does a great Pac-Man cosplay -- related thread here.
--- Quote from: Infa Red on July 20, 2021, 02:46:50 pm ---You know I have from day 1 had that option checked, and just now double checked and yes I have that option enabled to leave words uncensored. Yet, it is still censoring them I guess ? Weird.
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