Do I have the oldest monitor in this section? - 1084's

Neil79 · 16 Mar 2016 at 10:48

Just got this little beauty last week, but as I'm much older, the HZ flicker isn't enough to be stared at for all hours

Razor Time · 17 Mar 2016 at 02:17

There's a blast from the past, I had the Philips variant of that display the CM8833.

Legend · 17 Mar 2016 at 02:28

Nice. Does it have G-Sync?

Can you actually play modern games on these monitors, is that even possible? I'm curious what they'd look like.

Orangey · 17 Mar 2016 at 12:38

This particular model has RGB input so should look just like any old VGA monitor?

Born_2_Kill_83 · 17 Mar 2016 at 13:37

I wonder if originally it was the same colour as the speakers. I'm pretty sure they didn't come that colour.

rene.agac · 18 Mar 2016 at 01:25

but.. does it run Crysis?

Neil79 · 18 Mar 2016 at 01:25

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
I wonder if originally it was the same colour as the speakers. I'm pretty sure they didn't come that colour.

It was white once

Born_2_Kill_83 · 18 Mar 2016 at 09:03

Has it been sat in the sun or smoking owner?

Bubo · 18 Mar 2016 at 10:21

The plastic on my A4000 turned bright orange all by itself whilst sat in its box in a cupboard. No sun required.

Orangey · 18 Mar 2016 at 12:21

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18672941

Can't hear the word "bromide" without thinking of JC Tenton btw.

JamesMay · 18 Mar 2016 at 12:27

Orangey said:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18672941

Can't hear the word "bromide" without thinking of JC Tenton btw.

Denton*

Orangey · 18 Mar 2016 at 13:33

No, Tenton.

chaparral · 19 Mar 2016 at 12:29

Neil79 said:
It was white once

The muck off type motorbike cleaner normally work great for getting the whiter colour back..

Just spray some onto a cloth and then wipe the monitor over with it..

guddler · 22 Mar 2016 at 00:38

Legend said:
Can you actually play modern games on these monitors, is that even possible? I'm curious what they'd look like.

Erm, no. That's a 15.75Khz monitor. You'd need at least VGA (30Khz) to play modern games.

As for what they would look like (on VGA). I believe that modern games on a good 21"+ CRT screen would look awesome, the downside is the amount of desk size you'd lose

Resolution would obviously not be very high - probably something like 1280x1024, more if you got a really good screen so you'd obviously not have a particularly big viewpoint, but I think the quality of the picture would be pretty fine. My father was a TV engineer so I grew up around stuff in his workshop and IMO, we're only just now seeing picture quality that rivals where good CRTs were at when they stopped being produced. We're finally getting there with good LED / OLED and 4K stuff. With the earlier "HD" screens, even at a premium price point they weren't a patch on good CRTs.

All that being said, I do like my super-wide 21:9

If you really want a blast from the past, go and find someone with a vector screen (think Asteroids, Tempest, Star Wars). They were somewhere around 1024x512 (I forget exactly) back when the rest of the world was on 320x200. Such a great shame they got a bad rep on reliability because it would be mind boggling where we might be with them had they not died off so quickly. Aside from the screen though, another problem was the amount of compute power required to push the ever expanding number of lines about the screen. Same problem as today basically, just 30+ years ago.

Anyway, enough rambling...

Bluecube · 22 Mar 2016 at 18:35

I saw the thread header and immediately thought "Amiga", clicked through to read it and voila! an Amiga! Albeit one of the new fangled ones...

Resolution on 21" monitors was something like 1600x1200 though it depended on the model. Of course with CRT monitors you run at various resolutions without any ill effects (as far as I know). I used to run a 17" monitor at 1280x1024 though I did have to squint a bit.