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Why did 1990s-2000s LCD all use 60 Hz refresh?
To be fair, cost, need, and usefulness of anything above the standardized 60 Hz minimum for different resolutions are the reasons why it took long for LCD monitors to go past 60 Hz.
The LCD panels ...
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First computer with LCD screen
As the question is unclear about what is to be considered a laptop and what screen size is sufficient, we will have multiple possible winners:
(I will only include mass-market machines, as special ...
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LCD Displays with the Intel 8080
The 8080 is not a microcontroller, but a microprocessor, so it had no special provision for LCD displays, as modern microcontroller may have, except maybe for the ability to use packed BCD numbers. It ...
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Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0
Some laptops have built-in support for inverting the screen in one form or another; Toshiba laptops for instance have a setup menu to configure gray-scale translation and inversion, as well as a pop-...
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Why do sprites lag behind a scrolling map in first-generation Pokémon games?
Lacking meaningful research avenues, I started surveying YouTube videos, and I think I managed to mine some insights even from that scant evidence. Here is what I found out:
The issue is apparently ...
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What sort of LCDs are used by the Game Boy/TI-83 calculator/etc.?
The original Gameboy, which I assume this is about, is, as Wiki states a Reflective, 160 × 144 Pixels, STN LCD.
Reflective means that it has no backlight nor other means of ilumination but simply ...
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Why do sprites lag behind a scrolling map in first-generation Pokémon games?
Well, there's a fifth one: A sequence issue not really considered relevant when first published.
The underlaying issue is that sprites are not moved during scrolling the background, prior to (re)...
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How do you remove an LCD bubble on an unmodified Game Boy?
I have seen this happen on several Nintendo systems:
Back in the days of the G&W games, they were putting a rather thick polarizing layer in front of the LCD screen and not gluing it.
At some ...
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Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0
You can invert the screen on a monochrome Omnibook by holding the Fn key and pressing either of the contrast up/down buttons next to the screen.
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Why did 1990s-2000s LCD all use 60 Hz refresh?
One benefit of high refresh rates on CRTs is to re-energize each phosphor more frequently, so decay between scans is less. And any pulsing of brightness happens at a frequency well above human ...
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Monitor for an SGI Octane?
There’s a handy list of sync-on-green-capable (and known incapable) monitors maintained by the Linux for PlayStation 2 community. Any of the “tested working” screens should be OK; take a note of any ...
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Why did 1990s-2000s LCD all use 60 Hz refresh?
I would say that 1990s LCD displays did not use 60 Hz refresh. At least the one I had on my first laptop in 1997 was a passive matrix display, with 30 Hz refresh rate and very slow response time. Not ...
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Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0
Seems to me that the way to go would be to re-program the lookup table use by the digital to analog converter (DAC).
The DAC is essentially the last component in the VGA, taking 8-bit VGA colors and ...
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LCD Displays with the Intel 8080
A passive, non multiplexed 7 segment LCD display doesn't need a real "protocol" - but neither can you just apply voltage to segments from some I/O pin. LCD displays at their core need an AC drive ...
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Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0
For programs which run within a DOS screen or window, you should be able to pre-load ANSI.SYS with CONFIG.SYS. You would then preset your desired foreground and background colors before running the ...
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Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0
If all else fails, and you're up for (or know somebody who would be interested in) a fun low-level programming challenge, there's an interesting hack you could apply to this problem. This will work ...
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Which LCD technology was used in Game and Watch?
Your assumptions are reasonable, TN is most likely.
DSM appears never to have been mainstream. TN LCDs provided better visual quality at lower power and took over pretty much as soon as they were on ...
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First computer with LCD screen
Visual Commuter released in 1983 had an 80 character 16 line LCD screen. It also supported the standard IBM MS pixel graphics. In 1985 it was upgraded to 24 lines of text.
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LCD Displays with the Intel 8080
If you are driving a non-multiplexed LCD display, there will typically be one wire per segment, plus one common wire. The common wire needs to be driven alternately high and low, with the other wires ...
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