I’ve received my Checkmate Retro Monitor from their Kickstarter campaign a good while back, but I haven’t had the chance to really open this until now, especially since we’ve gotten some home renovations complete downstairs. Anyway, first impressions are already great! I think Steve did a really great job with this display!
I wanted to test it out with my 486DX4 Overdrive rig with the built-in speakers, with Windows 3.1 running at 800×600 resolution. Other than that I haven’t done a whole lot of testing, but so far so good out of the box.
It does look rather aesthetically pleasing, I’m glad I ended up getting this, now here’s the rear I/O on my unit:
And the box it came in, which was well packaged!
I’ll test the other features it has, apart from the VGA input later. Since I ended up helping my friend PluMGMK by testing his COM program on actual hardware, and I wanted to go ahead and get this unboxed and setup, rather than digging out a CRT monitor.
Anyway, that’s it for now!
