The reason being, that the manufacturer may have designed it to power a flatbed scanner for example (like the one I use) and it may well be sufficient for that application. If you are using an after market PSU, which I would imagine most of us are these days, the power draw maybe ok when just the CPC is connected, but add another device into the mix and things can go a little screwy. That does sound like a lack of sufficient amps from the PSU or a lack of or insufficient 'smoothing' circuitry, basically capacitors in the PSU that are used to hold the power output steady. Was it here that I saw links to a site on another brand of 'anything' to modern VGA converted that had a proper 'scanline' effect ?Īnyway, the fact is I miss this model don't have some 'CRT-like' display effect. it could really add a lot when dealing with ditherings and gradiants, and got the Mode0 pixels less blocky, and the palette not too much bright and vividly coloured.īut hey, who am i kidding, having bigger screen being flat and easy to transport is good anyway. Perhaps those scanlines are a bit more viosible on CPC when plugged into a large CRT TV instead of the 'not that big' Amstrad monitor.īut the thing is also about the 'non really square' pixels. =Speccy has a border, but also only 256x192 inside this.Īmstrad CPC had quite a large Border, well not that big actually when you were in real 320x200.īut far bigger border compared to (IBM) PC who had almost no borders, but also native specific monitors.Īs a result the CPC managed to produce actually fine and small pixels compared to many other systems. = a SegaMS displays 256x192 on the same surface, sort of. =a NES displays 256x240 on the whole surface of the TV/Monitor very strange to be honest.įirst the pixels weren't perfectly square of course.Īnd to be fair the scanline 'lines' weren't as marked as some consoles on large TV in fullscreen. Well, those scanlines weren't that marked on CPC to be true, compared to what I used to have on my EGA PC.ĮGA is set at 350 vertical lines, with 'native' specific monitor, so when dealing with some vertical 200, you had 'large' black lines between the normal lines.

Just on emulators and, may be, some NTSC systems.you are not wrong TotO. QuoteI don't remember any scanlines effects on my CTM.

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