Building Replica Amigas to Preserve Digital Artwork
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They also talk of "a simulation of the GraphiCraft application"
To me this means it's not clear if it's even running a full Amiga emulator vs. just a skin deep simulation of Workbench and Graphicraft. If they were running an Amiga emulator they could have used the real deal.
But using an LCD will be sort of like printing an old painting by one of the masters on cheap paper using a laser printer and displaying it as the real thing.
I wish there was a modern technology that could replicate the CRT picture convincingly.
OLED TV + high end GPU with a shader like CRT-Royale, comes close, but is sadly not available in the correct small size.
Flexible OLED would be great for mimicking the Trinitron look, but it's hard to make it look like a cheaper CRT.
And making new CRTs for these formats would be prohibitively expensive.
Hmm, I'd never considered that. I keep seeing people talking about buying really expensive 90s Sony TVs for retro gaming or resorting to iffy display filters in their emulator, but a clip-on lens could be nice. And frankly, I'm not sure my desk or tables would support one of those 90s monsters anyway.
I'm imagining one of those odd "anti-radiation filters" that were all the rage in the CRT days. Have to remember to check back in a few days to see if any commenters there have posted a workable home solution.
The quality of the LCD is super poor, and it causes more eyestrain than the CRT "radiation" ever did, often I am squinting, or shifting on my chair, to see if the LCD colour shift will make seeing stuff easier.
[0] https://www.lg.com/br/monitores/lg-M2380AF-monitores-led not sure the equivalent model in english-speaking countries though
I'm not aware of any way to recreate the vacuum in the CRT (is there one?), so my option will probably be to get a 9" LCD and make a resin lens with a negative of the CRT's face (or detach and fill the implosion mask). To that I'll need to add a controller that can take the TTL RGB signals from the board and remove all the high voltage stuff before I fry myself.
A Trinitron replacement should be a bit easier to fake with a flexible (and large enough - that's the problem) OLED display.
Would a color LCD survive being bent in an oven?
I'll also add a reminder to check back here in a few days to see how you've fared :)
Day job and family take time away from the silliest endeavors.
So you probably still want a filter.
Still, this is nice + probably better than using a shader for the distortion.
I think replicating Warhol's Amiga should include a correct size keyboard. Going through all that trouble to imitate a CRT, and then skipping out on the keyboard makes little sense.