I didn’t ask him, I just did the thing. Like hell, I got tired of some of the buttons randomly not working.

Now every button works perfectly, plus I did a little modding to make it work at a broader angle…

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
    121·
    27 days ago

    I got my first High Definition PC monitor from back in 1994. It just didn’t know it was High Definition compatible (over 1 million pixels per frame), until I overclocked it.

    2048x1536 was totally doable back in 1994, though the CRT controller electronics were too dumb to realize it when it was manufactured.

    Fuck ‘smart’ electronics.

    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
      9·
      27 days ago

      That’s pretty rad. Didn’t know CRT monitors back then were capable of that resolution. Good luck finding a 00s HD CRT monitor for a decent price anymore though.

      • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
        13·
        27 days ago

        That particular monitor was originally designed for a max resolution of 1280x1024 (also, by definition, high definition believe it or not).

        Later on, after I refurbished it, I studied the specs of the Horizontal Output Transistor, which apparently maxed out at 64KHz.

        I did some magic math and with the help of a programmable GPU, I successfully tried a custom 2048x1536 mode…

        That’s actually where my username comes from.