Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs? 367
75th Trombone writes "I'm a fan of several old PC games — the Myst series, StarCraft, Diablo, etc — with 2D graphics that run at a low, fixed resolution. These games all look horrible on modern LCDs. If you run them at their original resolution, they're tiny, and if you upscale them they get all sorts of blurry, pixelly smoothing artifacts. My ideal goal is to run these games at exactly double their original resolution — running 640 x 480 games at 1280 x 960, for example — so that each original pixel takes up exactly a 2 x 2 block of screen pixels, yielding graphics that are perfectly crisp and decently big. I've tried arcane settings in graphics card drivers (new and old), I've tried forcing the OS to run at a given resolution, and I've tried PowerStrip, all to no avail. Short of writing a new, modern engine for my favorite games, is there a reasonable solution to this problem?"
There have been many community-supported graphical overhauls of classic games — feel free to share any you know to work well.
Re:Buy a cheap CRT (Score:5, Funny)
I have two you can have for free. They're here in Germany though... shipping might be a bit expensive ;)
Re:Buy a cheap CRT (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, forget Freecycle, since.. eh, what are we talking about?
Re:Old Games on Faster Computers can be tough (Score:2, Funny)
Meanwhile, Nethack works just fine...
Amazing how you never have to worry about turn-based games playing too fast, isn't it?
Re:get some sun (Score:4, Funny)
I don't think there are many games released for the Sun platform. And those that exist probably run just as well with Linux on a normal PC. No need for expensive hardware. :-)
And BTW, what's that "outside" you are speaking of?
Re:Old Games on Faster Computers can be tough (Score:5, Funny)
Meanwhile, Nethack works just fine...
Amazing how you never have to worry about turn-based games playing too fast, isn't it?
Or ascii-based games running into problems with tiny pixels or miss-matched resolutions.
Cheap solution... (Score:5, Funny)
Try squinting?
Re:Buy a cheap CRT (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Buy a cheap CRT (Score:2, Funny)
But but, how could she afford healthcare then?
According to top Fox News scientists everyone part of a public health care system is technically already dead.
Re:Buy a cheap CRT (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, forget about John Titor and going back in time. I would recommend asking Slashdot what they think to do. Much easier than going back in time.