Playing Minecraft With a Monitor From the 1980s.

[@patricksanders4538]

Overscan is a non issue on CRTs. Adjust size and position with the VPOS, HPOS, VWIDTH and HWIDTH knobs provided. They're behind the latch.

[@FirstName-kl8mx]

it's definetly more interesting and enjoyable seeing these composite monitors working on modern computers, though VGA monitors also work and they produce nice scanlines if you use them at 480p

[@mitsuruyamada]

It was beautiful to see the electron beam hit phosphor glow green on the cathode-ray tube. I remember the unique atmosphere that today's LCD monitors do not have.

[@PlushPineapple]

Were did you get the Monitor and PC from? Please tell me I'm looking for one everywhere.

[@loganjorgensen]

Certainly the easiest way to do that but not the most optimal using Composite. For an HDMI video source you need a Component/RGB connection on the CRT to do it any kind of justice. With that grade of AV 480p becomes possible, so sad in NA the RGB option was present in so many CRTs but no ports for it without modification in most cases.😒I have a widescreen CRT with a native HMDI port and it produces a unique picture, sharp but you can't really make out the pixels. I think we would have fared better with S-Video in NA during the 80s but even Composite struggled to get a foothold in cheap CRT manufacturing, I blame that entirely different port standard for why S-Video stumbled so much, should have just stuck with plain RCA cables, which is what Component did after it.🤔 Looking back on the early multimedia players of the 90s(CD-i and what not.) it really seemed like 360p would have worked better with interlaced analog video standards as even Component video isn't very sharp without Progressive Scan I noticed with the Wii. The "cut-off" overscan aspect can easily be fixed, just squeeze the height and vertical field inward a little. Even SDTVs had dials like that until the 90s where they hid the option behind a remote password gated service mode, but its still there. Heh yeah the widescreen aspect ratio of now offers a lot more peripheral vision in FPP than 4:3 but we never seemed to complain bitd.😅 For the average CRT I've found that 16:10 fares okay but 16:9 is too much for a 4:3 CRT, simply too much vertical definition is lost from letterboxing the window. Text based media has the benefit of scale adjustment settings where if you make the font big enough that even snowy RF video couldn't stop it from being legible.😉

[@TreeOfWisdom2]

love the green

[@coneh2]

Good Video!