shouldn't the scanlines be horizontal?

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first time i've ever seen vertical scalines?

[Jamden88]

Good question! Space Moth DX actually began life as an arcade game (in London arcade The Heart of Gaming), and the scanline setting in the PC version is designed to mimic the look of real vertical CRT arcade monitors, which have vertical scanlines.

This is because vertical CRT arcade monitors are actually the same as horizontal ones, just turned on their side: some arcade cabinets even have a mechanism inside to let operators rotate the monitor between positions to suit the type of game installed!

In short, on real CRT arcade monitors horizontal games have horizontal scanlines and vertical games have vertical scanlines, so Space Moth DX does look authentic!

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oh I see, perhaps would be a nice feature if you could rotate the scanlines :}