[mras0]

Guess it depends. I haven't had a CRT TV for many years, but I have an old multisync CRT monitor and I can clearly see the individual raster lines (close up of 320x200 progressive scan: https://i.imgur.com/Osc4ZMm.jpeg). At normal viewing distances it's not noticeable though.

[MarkusWandel]

It would make sense to adjust the "line width" (focus!) of the scanlines so they blur into each other. But on a multisync monitor, this would be matched to the highest resolution it can display. Without fancy defocusing circuitry, of course if you display only 200 scanlines on a monitor capable of 5x as many, you're going to get a lot of black space between them. This bothered me personally, in those days, in my case with a 20" CRT monitor and emulation of my old C64 environment. Modern "CRT emulation" is better than the real thing, in this case.

[smusamashah]

> At normal viewing distances

Yes thats what it was all about. The pixelated game graphics were made with that and other CRT properties in mind.

[mras0]

Yeah, and I seem to recall reading an article about some of the good old tricks (think it was about the Aladdin game?), but unfortunately I can't seem to find it now. Doing the dithering (by hand) just right would give a good effect in practice. Things made for real higher resolution monitors looked bad on lowres CRTs though (with very distinct scanline effects) as I recall like the menubar in my screen cap, even at a distance.

[dm319]

Deluxe Paint, ah! fond memories!

[hulitu]

> multisync CRT monitor

> 320x200

21" by chance ? Why would someone use 320x200 on a monitor when only the very old DOS games need such a mode ?

[mras0]

14" 1994 vintage Microvitec. Very popular monitor for Amiga systems because it supports 15KHz horizontal refresh rate modes (PAL/NTSC TV standard - for games/demos) up to 31KHz+ (VGA) for nice flicker free 640x480 60Hz display ("productivity") modes for serious stuff.