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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by Melatonic on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:13PM (#30950961)
You could also "overclock" them to run at higher refresh rates (frame rates, hz) depending on the resolution. The top CRT's were blowing away LCD's for many, many years. Good color, higher refresh, good dynamic range, etc etc. Those 21" CRT's were massive but I held onto my second hand one for as long as I could. I remember getting the VGA adapter for the Dreamcast and it looked damn good on that CRT!
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by zozbot234 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:22PM (#30951044)
Driving CRTs at bad frequencies was a common way of letting all the magic smoke out, back in the day.
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by Melatonic on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:29PM (#30951568)
Throwing them in a trash bin and then smashing them with a sledge hammer was also a good way to do that and a bit louder :-D
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by rasz on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:11AM (#30975781)
This is a myth, true only to some very early(as in 87-89) VGA fixed frequency monitors.
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