#crtv

[1000deaddraculas]

You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did.

[orchidblack]

Nam June Paik, TV Garden (1974)

[paperw0rmz]

I <3 CRT

[roadworxx]

i've been meaning to post this for a while now, so here it is

The Gateway GP6-400

this is my retro pc setup - a modified gateway gp6-400 from 1999. this model in particular really appealed to me; it's powerful enough to run most games up to around 1998 or so, but it still has fairly realistic performance for a typical gaming pc of that era. i still went ahead and swapped out some parts as well as added some new ones in order to get exactly what i want out of it, however.

here's the specs:

- Pentium II 400mhz

- 128mb RAM

- 250gb HDD (win98 partition only uses 6.4gb for accuracy

- Voodoo3 AGP graphics card

- Integrated Ensoniq AudioPCI audio

- ES1868F ISA audio card for DOS gaming

- DVD-RW drive

- 3.5" floppy drive

- 250mb ZIP drive

on the pc there exist two operating systems: windows 98 second edition and ms-dos 6.2 with windows 3.1. now, you likely find this odd considering that ms-dos 7.1 is already accessible from windows 98, but i reeeally wanted a true early 90s dos experience. so, i have a full installation of dos 6.2 on a separate 425mb partition (the size of a decent hdd from 1994 or so) that i access via boot disk.

as you can also see from the pictures, there's a crt monitor as well: the 17" princeton eo710. it was expensive - well-kept crt monitors tend to be that way unfortunately - but it works wonderfully and the display is gorgeous. i try to keep it at around half brightness and contrast, which can make seeing things in games hard at times, but i really would rather not risk wearing it down lol.

overall, it works splendidly. i'm able to run any games made up to around 2001 or so fairly well, and while there's been issues dealing with stupid win98 bullshit, it hasn't been too bad to work on. it's been a dream of mine to own a computer like this for ages, and now that i finally have one...i'm really happy :)

here's some more pics

the windows 98 desktop:

running dos:

@esselfortium 's KDIKDIZD looking amazing on the crt (it looks so much better in person):

and finally, some half-life along with a better view of the front of the pc:

[snowdeity]

Finally got an old tv

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ben Smith at Semafor:

A conservative American media company has fired one of the YouTubers implicated in an alleged Russian influence operation exposed by the US Department of Justice this week. “Lauren Chen was an independent contractor, whose contract has been terminated,” Blaze Media CEO Tyler Cardon said in an email to Semafor.

Chen and her husband, Liam Donovan, are the co-founders of Tenet Media, a previously obscure media company that paid eye-popping sums to right-wing influencers to produce videos that echoed Russian propaganda and other right-wing talking points, according to an indictment. She also contributed videos to BlazeTV, an arm of Blaze Media, which was founded by the former Fox News host and talk radio figure Glenn Beck, which was not mentioned in Wednesday’s indictment. The two Americans were also not named in the indictment, which instead charged two Russians associated with the state-owned Russia Today with money laundering and violating foreign influence laws.

Blaze Media issues pink-slip to Lauren Chen, who was named in a DOJ investigation on Russian propaganda.

Chen has hosted shows on BlazeTV (and CRTV prior to the CRTV/TheBlazeTV merger).

[bogusluck]

[olahresidence]

Oh yeah! We're back in business now! Finally feel like I've gotten my groove back. Here's the purples for huevember.

14 - Caro et Ferrum 15 - Cats Cradle 16a - English Breakfast 16b - E.B. Doily Edition

[rai-dev]

My first commission for someone on discord

Vibri from Vib-ribbon

[ronnieraccoon]

cruelskull

How could you not trust that face? Twitter - DeviantArt - NewGrounds - FurAffinity - Tumblr

[jeanfaymas]

They are putting Vtubers inside the CRTs now??

[kenaim]

Video installation now playing

[possibly-pasta]

okay….. i’m very emotionally compromised from learning that the last CRTV was made in 2015…. from like, old parts, so not even really new.

i feel so heavy? and sad? and weird? those tvs were my friends. i could feel the way they were alive and hear the high pitched sound of them waking up. i can remember feeling the hairs on my face standing up when i got really close to it…

[kiitzuna]

the club is open.

why not have a drink?

[tapiocaco]

learned how to do the crt effect and applied it to some old artworks! made it more vibeyyy