[game_preservation] Fwd: End of the arcade CRT monitor

[István Fábián]

It is possible to simulate CRT artefacts with sufficiently powerful graphics cards, for an example see micro64, the c64 emulator.

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 Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote: 

Ok, so they are harvesting CRTs, which will work for some time, but is obviously not sustainable.

Do you think this is something where we can modify an LCD monitor to "emulate" CRT display (basically look like a CRT monitor) or should this be something where instead we look at having blueprints/manufacturing information for the technology so a preservation/restoration group can produce new ones. Because what it sounds like is there won't be too many left in another 10 years.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
I visited again yesterday and had another opportunity to meet the owner (especially after I broke the arcade's high score for Track and Field ;-) and he mentioned that he has very strong feelings about arcade repair and has been replacing LCDs with CRTs where he can find them, and has also been buying broken cabinets where the CRT is working but little else is, just to get the CRT.  He mentioned that sometimes existing CRTs can be repaired due to something simple, so some repair is attempted. Also, he makes a decision on how bad a CRT is before he scraps it -- some burn-in is allowed, some gamma shift is allowed.  So the basic answer to the question is "harvesting".  He harvests CRTs whenever he can.  He feels very strongly that the machines were meant to be experienced with as much original hardware as possible, something I wholeheartedly endorse.

I asked him about how easy it was to retrofit traditional TV tubes into arcade cabinets and he said that his experience with doing that was not very successful.  He only seeks out tubes that have been used in an arcade setting.


On 7/6/2012 4:14 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:
If it helps we (at the museum in the UK) need TV's for our old computers
(authenticity as you are both saying!). We luckily have now got a TV
repair man (or someone who knows enough), and luckily no need for buying
in expensive parts for kit like arcade machines as such though, just
portable and normal TV's right now.

I'd say good luck to those guys fixing them, going to be harder and
harder now :(

Andrew

On 06/07/2012 22:08, Jim Leonard wrote:
On 7/3/2012 12:19 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:
I'm going to Galloping Ghost Arcade tomorrow, and I'd be happy to ask
and report back.  (They have over 300+ functioning coin-ops.)

Unfortunately the owners were not in so I was unable to gather any
significantly useful information.  The one person who was there
mentioned that they take broken CRTs to "a local repair guy" where
they are repaired, so I'm led to believe that they are repairing the
tubes as well as trying to find replacements at a local recycling center.


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