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jandrese on March 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why do color TVs make black and white snow?

The 8-Bit guy did a great piece on CGA that goes into detail about how old developers abused the fuzzy smeary nature of composite signals to output somewhat decent graphics. The tricks however didn't work when people upgraded to proper monitors and as a result a lot of CGA games look much worse today than they did on the intended equipment of the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc

jpl56 on March 24, 2020 [–]

He also explained how to mod a consumer TV to use RGB input (provided there is no SCART input). And he explains how to discharge the capacitors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLz6pgvsZ_I

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