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GaryMcT:
I'm not trying to replace CRTs.  When I have to run Mame on an LCD, plasma, etc. device, I want it to look better than it does now.  Also, I wouldn't mind being able to have a single machine that I can play CRT and vector games on without one of them looking completely awful.

DJ_Izumi:
I still think that if high resolution progressive LCD screens were an option in the 70's and 80's, arcade devs woulda totally used them. :P

GaryMcT:

--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on September 10, 2009, 04:35:10 pm ---I still think that if high resolution progressive LCD screens were an option in the 70's and 80's, arcade devs woulda totally used them. :P

--- End quote ---

I think they would have use them, but they would have designed their art much differently than they did for shipping on a CRT.

I work on games now, and we go out of our way to author our content so that it looks good on the platform we are delivering it on.  For instance, if we know that we aren't going to be able to run with MSAA at 720p on a 360, we try to not author our models with high-frequency detail so that it doesn't alias/shimmer like mad.

MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on September 10, 2009, 04:35:10 pm ---I still think that if high resolution progressive LCD screens were an option in the 70's and 80's, arcade devs woulda totally used them. :P

--- End quote ---

The game hardware wasn't capable of high resolution raster graphics back then, so what would be the point of using a high resolution monitor? Games with a native resolution in the neighborhood of 320 x 240 look like crap when distorted/scaled/stretched/filtered to fit an LCD display's native (and fixed) resolution of say 1024 x 768 or higher. Additionally, the games would have looked incredibly blocky. For example, instead of the Pac-Man character looking like a circle, it would have had noticeable jagged stairstepping all around it.

CheffoJeffo:
TMK, Maxim is correct in everything he said.

Instead of labeling him as Mr PooPoo, perhaps you should take in what he is saying. Yhe question is whether the software changes can overcome the hardware differences (some of which Maxim has been the only one to point out).

The defenders say yes ... and they may be right ... but they may not be.

In either case, Maxim seems to be genuinely interested in the potential and is just providing technical info.

Do we need to call the Belligerent KoolAid man back or can we keep the discussion rational ?

 ;)

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