# Tube stuffstuff **URL:** \ **Category:** Fan Art\ **Created:** [August 3, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982 "2018-08-03T15:30:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/1 "2018-08-03T15:30:21Z")
This strikes me as fan artsy: > ---
**Author:** ![Gffp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/gffp/32/12183_2.png) [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/2 "2018-08-03T15:34:44Z")
Too bad the monitor cut the screen all around… ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/3 "2018-08-03T15:36:47Z")
The overscan option is something to put in [Which options do you miss in TWP (and other adventure games)?](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/which-options-do-you-miss-in-twp-and-other-adventure-games/2979/5) then. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/4 "2018-08-03T15:38:40Z")
> [@Gffp](#): > > Too bad the monitor cut the screen all around… But it was common back then that some parts of the (computer) screen was cropped by the TV. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gffp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/gffp/32/12183_2.png) [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/5 "2018-08-03T15:43:16Z")
Even to the point you can’t see some whole icons? Ah, that’s why it was so difficult to complete those first games… ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/6 "2018-08-03T15:44:47Z")
On all old computer monitors and TVs I’ve had you could play around a bit with that stuff to either fill the screen completely or see every single pixel (never both, but the corner pixels don’t really matter anyway). I guess really old pre-70s TVs only had the factory setting. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/7 "2018-08-03T15:52:09Z")
> [@Gffp](#): > > Even to the point you can’t see some whole icons? Not that much like in this case, but for example the (high) score. > [@Frenzie](#): > > On all old computer monitors and TVs I’ve had you could play around a bit with that stuff And we had to find the correct antenna channel… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/8 "2018-08-03T15:55:48Z")
Even the old unused b&w TV (except for a brief period in the early '90s when the proper TV had died) had presets. It came with… iirc five turnable knobs that you could set to channels. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/9 "2018-08-03T15:59:12Z")
On most computers there was this small screw that you have to turn _slowly_ with a screwdriver to set the channel/frequency. To get the best picture this screw and the TV settings had to match perfectly. It took some time and if you got it no one was allowed to change the settings. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/10 "2018-08-03T16:01:25Z")
I remember I once had a small board with numbers on it connected to the TV that so once you had the correct frequency you could associated it with one of the numbers on the board so you´d only have to push 1, 2 ,3,4 etc for certain channels or the console or something else connected to the TV ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-stuffstuff/2982/11 "2018-08-03T16:04:46Z")
Yeah, that was high-tech at that time. We had one of those cheap things with a slide switch. So we were able to switch between the console and the regular TV program. 🙂