Simply amazingly beautiful. Is this part of your pack?
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Hey thanks, I didn’t expected it to be so popular… it was just a joke and the preset has been tweaked from game to game to look better with that particular content, but since there’s interest, I’ll try to make a generic one from the draft I should still have somewhere on my Hdd…
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It reminds me a lot of the image I remember from the C64, and the Amiga connected to a CRT TV. It’s quite hard to find such a shader preset. If someone makes presets for the C64, or Amiga, they are presets based on CRT monitors, not TV.
I’m currently using a slightly modified koko_aio pal_my_old preset with NTSC artifact enabled. Although it’s hard to find any information whether the C64 on a CRT TV displayed NTSC artifact, because most of the videos on YT are Commodores connected to CRT monitors.
Don’t you remember we talked about it? AMIGA was mainly used on PAL TVs, but C64 had a strong market in US too, so the quest for artifacts would restrict to the 8bit machine, imho.
wikipedia:
For a substantial period (1983–1986), the C64 had between 30% and 40% share of the US market and two million units sold per year,[9] outselling IBM PC compatibles, the Apple II, and Atari 8-bit computers.
Yes, that’s why when writing about ntsc artifact I had only C64 in mind.
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Remember those magazines would have employed half -tone dot effects which would do some blending of its own to the image similar to the effect the CRT Mask and Scanlines have on the image but in a different way.
Secondly, most likely the photos might have been taken slightly defocused to avoid moire e.t.c and that would have reduced the visibility of the Scanlines and softened the image slightly creating a smooth, anti-aliased look.
I wouldn’t say they looked better than the real thing. I appreciated the sharper, focused, saturated appearance of the Commodore 1702 in person. I could still see the screen door like effect being produced by the mask, scanlines and graphics while playing Ys Book I & II on the Turbo Duo!
It made the graphics look much better and that’s what I’ve been trying to recreate ever since I started doing this.
I love your preset for what it is though. I would love to see a tuned, sharpened version which looks closer to the actual C64 output on the 1702 monitor. I think you’re pretty close already!
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