CRT Gaming 🖥️ Ultimate Doom (PC)

*WATCH ON 4K DISPLAY FOR BEST EXPERIENCE*
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0:00 - Intro/demo
1:00 - E1M1: Hanger
3:06 - E1M2: Nuclear Plant
6:54 - E1M3: Toxin Refinery
12:11 - E1M9: Military Base
16:11 - E1M4: Command Control
19:45 - E1M5: Phobos Lab
25:41 - E1M6: Central Processing
32:52 - E1M7: Computer Station
38:37 - E1M8: Phobos Anomaly
41:33 - Intermission text/credits
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This is Ultimate Doom as played through Chocolate Doom for the most authentic experience outside of DOSBox, down to the 320x200 resolution (well, 240) and 35FPS. As you can see, the picture quality looks perfectly sharp. That's because CRT displays have no native resolution, so there's no interpolation blur. The music is also played back through Nuked SC-55, making it as close to how Bobby Prince originally intended it to be heard. If you look closely, you'll notice the very tiny 480p scanlines.

I am getting a bit better at recording my PC CRT, though it's still not ideal. The light/dark balance still seems a bit off even though I used the PLUGE test. The phosphors are just way too small to be picked up by the camera, though at least they're somewhat in focus this time. Whereas the 27" Trinitron television has a stripe pitch of 0.75mm, this Trinitron monitor has a stripe pitch of 0.24mm. That means you don't really get any of the color bleeding effects until you get to very high resolutions, 960p and above. For instance, here's the "WeSmart" emote at 1080p:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachme...

What this means is that Doom was ALWAYS intended to be seen with blocky pixels. There is no magic smoothing or aliasing that comes from the PC CRT monitor like there is with consumer CRT televisions.
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Recording setup:
Windows 10 Home PC
Ryzen 5 2600
RX 580
16GB RAM
640x480 60Hz resolution
StarTech DP2VGAHD20 adapter output
Sony Trinitron GDM-C520 monitor

iPhone 16
Blackmagic Camera app
4K 60FPS
Default bitrate
Lens: 26mm 1x
FPS: 60
ISO: 50
Shutter speed: 1/60
Exposure: 0.0
White balance: 5600k
Tint: 10


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