Are you a retrogamer?

[HoloDust]

Conina said:

HoloDust said:

Oh, S-Video, Component and SCART certainly do look better, as in cleaner, but thing about early 80s CRTs is that, in most cases, you hooked your console/computer to them via RF, or in better case composite - well, at least from what I've seen back then around houses. So that's my memory of how those games should look. I think I've seen first SCART somewhere in later 80s, but by that time TV were already better than those relics from early 80s, and it was already 16 bit era, so different experience from early 8 bit days (which for me started around 83 with ZX Spectrum and C64).

HF-modulation was the worst!

When I got my first computer in 1987 (Commodore 128) I bought it together with a Commodore 1701 monitor.

The video signal was seperated into "luma", "chroma" and "audio"... I was very happy with the video quality back in those days.

Yeah, of course it was the worst - and it was what developers where expecting how it's in most homes, RF or Composite at best. And it's how they developed those games, with multiple CRTs, to see how their art behaves in real world, versus monitors they were designing their games on.

As I said, I went into home video gaming around '83, and all my friends and me had those systems (ZX or C64, it was more or less even split) hooked via RF, or composite at best...so that's how I remember them.

In the late 80s I was on Amiga 500 hooked to TV first with composite via modulator for a short time, then via SCART.