Brum Schools - Anyone have a spare decent CRT monitor they don't use?

[Trapper]

I am screaming internally at all the good CRTs I've binned and all my current and previous schools - and 2x 19" LG CRTs I had back until 2008 which weight a ton but looked great - but I need one!

 

I'm having problems with some retro hardware including my Acorn A3010 - LCDs just do not handle the old 16/256 colour modes (12/15 for RISC OS nerds) which most games run. My battery had to be removed before it leaked, and I haven't soldered a new one on so I can't configure RISC OS to change to MODE 12 on reboot as the setting goes after a hard break. The VGA modes look great, but most games do not use them!

 

I've tried the LCD Games module that some retro-guys at StarDot have made, but a lot of games just won't work with it. A lot of the mid-90s Fourth Dimension games such as Birds of War, Stunt Racer 2000 and original versions of Star Fighter 3000 crash out.

 

It also doesn't help that I'm using a printer port Zip drive as a make do and mend hard drive - and the driver/filing system is really poorly coded! It's quite a statement on the flexibility of Acorn that a single 100MB Zip disc can work well as a hard drive!

 

Anyway I'm based in Quinton/Harborne at home, and I work at a school in Moseley. If anyone near by has some spare CRTs, would they mind sharing the love?!

 

eBay will get me what I want in time - but it can't be shipped so it's pot luck when someone will post one locally, in good nick and at a sane (ie not lolBay) price. Freecycle has got me close, but they are increasingly rare. I keep hitting the charity shops too!

 

If not I'm stuck with basic composite video out via the RF tuner which was flakey back in 1995 via a HDMI converter to an LCD which still looks awful!

[cpjitservices]

Is there any IT firms near you ? One of them might have an old CRT laying around. Maybe email a few local schools/colleges see if they have one kicking about.

 

There is a local IT recycling place here they will have hundreds I wonder if you have a similar facility ?

[LincolnE]

Harborne area here.

 

We've got one going if you want it (Send me a PM and I'll look into it and see what condition it's in. Hasn't been used for a while, but was working at the start of the summer holiday)