{"id":1642,"date":"2008-05-06T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2008-05-04T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T19:08:00","slug":"crt-vs-lcd-for-retro-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"CRT vs. LCD for Retro Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still using an old 19&#8243; CRT monitor.  I got it years ago, and I know that I could go out right now and grab a 22&#8243; LCD for about half of what this unit originally cost.  I&#8217;d like to do so now, both for the desk space and because it <em>might<\/em> help reduce the frequency of <a href=\"?p=1571\">my headaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I haven&#8217;t done so is that I&#8217;m worried it will interfere with the old games I play.  I&#8217;ve heard complaints from some people in the past that they can&#8217;t get games like <a href=\"?p=1386\">X-Com<\/a> to run because their monitor doesn&#8217;t support 320&#215;200.  I&#8217;m not sure how much this is a limitation of the technology and how much is related to driver support.  Given the number of old games I play, I don&#8217;t want to do an upgrade that will cut me off from some of my old favorites.  <\/p>\n<p>Any advice?  Is it possible to run those early-90&#8217;s games using a modern LCD?  Any other drawbacks to using an LCD that I should know about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still using an old 19&#8243; CRT monitor. I got it years ago, and I know that I could go out right now and grab a 22&#8243; LCD for about half of what this unit originally cost. I&#8217;d like to do so now, both for the desk space and because it might help reduce the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}