Subj : Re: RetroPie + CRT
To   : deepthaw
From : bcw142
Date : Tue Oct 10 2017 13:07:29

On 10/10/17, deepthaw said the following...
 
 de> Settling into my new house, I've decided on the attic as my "getaway"
 de> location, since nobody else goes up there. I put an old 19" TV up there
 de> and decided to hook up my RetroPie.

May not be the best place, Pi's generally don't have heatsinks and don't
like the high temperature that an attic can get to (120+F) not to mention
people ;) Depends on time of year of course.

 de> A recent-ish update enabled 240p output over composite video,and I
 de> decided to give it a shot.
 de> 
 de> It looks really nice in most situations. Genesis games look great, being
 de> that they run at 320x224, SNES games look nice as well, but the graphics
 de> are kind of "squashed" since they run at 256x224.

That should be good for the old DOOM, DOOM2 and such. Should work OK under
Retropie's DOSBox setup (I've run it that way). Older Pis have their own
version of DOOM setup for the video chip and such so it will work full speed.
The Pi3 seems OK on that stuff without that custom setup. Freedoom is one of
the versions and it will run the old DOOM files as well and the Freedoom
versions. Even Quake started out at 320x240 originally, DOOM2 & Quake had
higher res. modes (640x480, 800x600). I found the composite to limiting and
hard to keep running after updates and things, went to HDMI and newer LCDs.
I Did use old composite stuff for a while (a year or so) on some stuff before
the PiB+ and Pi2 (and Retropi).

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