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For that reason, if I ever had to stop using CRTs (the apocalypse is coming fast, in the area where I live now they are nigh on impossible to find) I'd only go with solutions which enable shaders. |
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Modern scaler gives you the CRT 240p/288p look with very authentic looking filters (PVM, BVM, consumer TVs, arcade monitors etc). It's not as good as PC Emulation with the best shaders, but convincing enough for the most people.
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I'm pretty sure in the next five years there will be more choice in this regard, so I suppose this will be covered....but still...glass is glass |
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I hope it's useful
on the http://15khz.wikidot.com page I added the "Year of Production" column and some test dates, we will update it gradually I'm always looking for recent monitors, I also hope for your collaboration |
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I tried to use OSSC for a while but got too annoyed with sonI ditched it. Its great for other consoles that always use same resolution, on the Amiga with a bunch of different screenmodes, for me, it was too much hassle.
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It’s certainly not cheap, but good luck purchasing a decently sized CRT for a decent price these days. It seems that hoarders (I have seen people with 8+ 1084S…) have hiked up the prices for everyone. I certainly would love to free all the space used up by my CRTs (one 1084S and a 31khz monitor) - it would mean more space for the machines themselves Same here, my OSSC lies unused - I can’t be arsed to manually switch saved configs every 5 minutes. Great for NES, SNES and the likes, but terrible for PS1 upwards. |
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Good to know as I was seriously considering one. So it doesn't deal well with screenmode changes? How does the rgb2hdmi mod compare? Can that deal okay with the screenmode changing? Any recommended scalers for the Amiga rather than the OSSC? |
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Complete CRT filter support, with scanlines and masks, are only supported via Retro Tink 5x Pro and the 4K Tink. On the latter the masks looks very authentic, even magnified in 5x-10x. Last edited by Retro-Nerd; 29 June 2024 at 21:45. |
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I have not tried retroTink but on A500 and A2000 I have RGB2HDMI and it works great. better than any scalers Ive seen. |
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For Amiga only, when you want all Amiga resolutions, RGB2HDMI is probably the best solution i guess. Sadly there is no proper soluton for AGA machines.
And NO, the Indivision isn't good enough. The scaling doesn't look good enough from what i've seen so far. The Tinks are much better. On the other hand: I tried the Minimig core via Mister and Retrotink 4k, which supports higher RTG resolutions (1080p/720p). And it looks very good. Last edited by Retro-Nerd; 29 June 2024 at 22:26. |
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The OSSC with the 1.x firmware supports CRT mask effects now. Looks best at higher resolutions such as 5x.
OSSC Pro supports even more of these and looks great. It also has a frame buffer so there's no drop-out on resolution changes if you configure it to do so and it's also a lot more compatible with displays that don't support non-standard resolutions and refresh rates that older systems can output. Of course, if you tell it to force 60Hz output for compatibility reasons, you won't get smooth scrolling on a 50Hz PAL game. It's also got bob, weave, and motion-adaptive de-interlacing options, where the original OSSC only has bob (flicker). I use the RGBtoHDMI on my A500s. For CRT effects, it currently only supports scanlines with adjustable brightness, but the picture quality is about the best you can get otherwise. It's got a weave de-interlacer which I find best for desktop usage. It will re-sync on resolution changes, causing brief black screen. I don't find this to be an issue with the Amiga. Unlike some other platforms, there's so few programs that will change resolutions in a situation where the delay matters. |
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Speaking of modern monitors, does anyone has opinions on this one (Kickstart campaign)?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...nd-new-systems |
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Is it? I don't think there is a GBS-C feeding into some other panel driver in there, I think the electronics is designed for 15/31kHz. And there are 3 levels of panel, the cheapest one may well be boggo but it's the buyer's choice. I had a panel from Arcooda (https://www.arcooda.com/accessories/...rcade-monitor/), it was a good LG unit for the Amiga and it would be even better in a housing designed to make it easy. |
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It's garbage for serious Retro Gaming. IPS or TN Panel with 1280x1024 native resolution in 2024? For that price? Nah! I can't see VRR support which helps a lot in outputting the e.g correct 49.92 Hz of PAL Amigas and not plain 50Hz, so it's pointless imo. As a work monitor maybe good enough. But for that money you'll get also better ones.
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(obviously I don't think of myself as a Serious Retro Gamer)
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Or the aspect. I get it, 5:4 PAR is appealing for Amiga stuff. But adding a cheap GBS Control (which is generally fine i guess) doesn't make this monitor magically a really good one. Buy good, buy once. And use a good scaler if gaming is import for you.
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