A Thinkpad X220 is pressed into service, with a 576 by 360 pixel at 60 Hz video mode defined, and there we have it, a modern desktop on an obsolete piece of test equipment.

As long as you are willing to explore eBay and second-hand marketplaces to find a working CRT monitor in decent condition, there are a few advantages to using a CRT monitor for retro gaming (and ...

Aside from keeping decades-old consumer-grade computing hardware working, a major problem for many retrocomputing enthusiasts lies in doing the same for vintage monitors. Whether your screen is a d… ...

The venerable CRT monitor is under assault by the upstart LCD, but the old-timer is holding its own, primarily because of ... The 770FD “is further enhanced,” said Rook, by a self-diagnostic test the ...

I settled on acquiring a CRT monitor to get me right back in that '90s gaming zone. Old CRTs use analog signals, which come with wild variability from model to model.

Plus, the image is letterboxed, and parts of the screen are cut off, so it's not precisely game-ready. The Vision Master Pro 512 CRT monitor can also be pushed to 500 Hz with a 320 x 200 ...

So I'm going to be buying a new monitor in the next few months, my 19" CRT is starting to get fuzzy and have scan lines running across it.<BR>I tend to game a lot (Mame, HL2, WoW, etc), as well as ...

CRT monitors can still be great for modern gaming and even look and perform better than their modern LCD counterparts. They are big, bulky, and in some cases expensive, but the results are ...

I need to decide between getting a 15 inch LCD for the computer I'm building or a 17 inch CRT flat screen monitor. Since the prices are falling on LCDs lately I'm considering getting this one as ...