Sharp on a 4K TV on Apple TV
Pixel art drawn crisp at the right shape, with none of the shimmer that comes from scaling it wrong.
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The problem
A 256x240 picture on a 3840x2160 panel does not divide evenly. Scale it the lazy way and you get either a soft, blurry mess or a picture that shimmers every time something moves, because some pixels are two screen pixels wide and their neighbours are three.
What Playbox does
It draws each frame with a shader that keeps pixels square and hard-edged but blends only across the boundary between them. The result is crisp at any size, holds still when the screen scrolls, and keeps the 4:3 shape the games were drawn for.
What else Playbox does
- Every game on one shelfPosters, not filenames. Continue Playing sits on top, like the shows you're partway through.
- Finds your NAS by itselfIt lists the computers and NAS boxes on your network. Pick one instead of typing an address on a TV.
- Pick up where you left offNo save slots, no state menus. Pause, leave, come back tomorrow. The game is where you left it.
- Point it at a folderGames in a shared folder. A picture with the same name becomes the poster. That's the whole setup.
