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Re:Javascript Hero: Change Computer History Forever by acheron on Friday October 28, 2011 @09:16PM (#3170751)
Never used a monitor where that was the only option?

My lawn: get off of it.

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Re:Javascript Hero: Change Computer History Forever by mechanical_fish on Friday October 28, 2011 @09:22PM (#3170763)
Let's be fair: The old green-screen monitors had much larger font sizes. Maybe that was less harsh. Also, I had younger eyes. ;)

Does anyone have an actual Apple II green-screen display (40 or 80 columns, 24 rows) emulated in Javascript to share with us? I found an Apple II emulator but it only plays games.

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Re:Javascript Hero: Change Computer History Forever by daeken on Friday October 28, 2011 @10:02PM (#3170839)
The shapes on old green-screen monitors were also significantly softer, which I believe helped readability as well. Small, sharp green text on a black background is just killer on the eyes.
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Re:Javascript Hero: Change Computer History Forever by nknight on Saturday October 29, 2011 @02:07AM (#3171293)
What's your OS?

OS X defaults to much softer font rendering than most systems, and Windows/Linux can be tweaked (try googling for things like "OS X style font" or "soft font rendering" with the name of your OS tacked on)

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