BLEED FOR ME: UNDOING ATARI 2600 EMULATION PERFECTION
Via Ian Bogost (author of the recently mentioned book Racing the Beam, chronicling the life and times of the Atari 2600), a new project to make Atari 2600 emulation more authentic by re-introducing the ‘undesirable’ qualities of CRT televisions that have since been stripped away, qualities like color bleed and flicker that programmers purposefully relied on.
Above, one of the five solutions by Georgia Tech Computer Science students which will eventually be worked into 2600 emulator Stella as a configurable option to bring that razor sharpness back into its proper fuzzy un-focus.
See more about the ongoing project at Bogost’s site.
A TELEVISION SIMULATOR – CRT Emulation for the Atari VCS [Ian Bogost, via grandtextauto, via waxy]
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