{"id":86771,"date":"2022-12-07T18:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/?p=86771"},"modified":"2022-12-07T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T17:15:34","slug":"kickstarter-retro-styled-modular-ips-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/kickstarter-retro-styled-modular-ips-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter.. Retro Styled Modular IPS Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As posted on Stephen Jones kickstarter page..,,,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Checkmate 19&#8243; IPS Retro Monitor Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/checkmate1500mini\/retro-styled-modular-ips-display-for-old-and-new-systems\/description\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/checkmate1500mini\/retro-styled-modular-ips-display-for-old-and-new-systems\/description<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What we are building is a modular display platform to take us into the future of retro computing and gaming or as we say, \u201cYesterday\u2019s Technology Tomorrow\u201d. It\u2019s the base on which to build your own future proof display solution based on what you need, and with great build quality and good looks. And it\u2019s flexible and upgradable enough for it to last you a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Checkmate really helps in keeping the Amiga alive and relevant. Professionally made new hardware products like these are so encouraging to see. The monitors give a clear and vivid display, providing an ideal all-in-one retro computer solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amiga Addict Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CRT displays of the kind we all grew up with are terrific displays, but they come with a price. They are not modern tech and as such they are expensive and difficult to maintain, like classic pinball machines or arcade games. We knew we had to come up with a better, more future proof solution going forwards and what we\u2019ve designed is the Checkmate Retro Styled Modular IPS Display platform. Modular inputs and modular outputs.<\/p>\n<p>Modular outputs &#8211; it doesn\u2019t come with a panel as standard, you have to add that afterwards depending on what you need. We had to do it this way, start with a base and add options. It\u2019s the only way to be all things to all people.<\/p>\n<p>More info:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/checkmate1500mini\/retro-styled-modular-ips-display-for-old-and-new-systems\/description\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/checkmate1500mini\/retro-styled-modular-ips-display-for-old-and-new-systems\/description<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As posted on Stephen Jones kickstarter page..,,, Checkmate 19&#8243; IPS Retro Monitor Overview What we are building is a modular display platform to take us into the future of retro computing and gaming or as we say, \u201cYesterday\u2019s Technology Tomorrow\u201d. It\u2019s the base on which to build your own future proof display solution based on  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[12,161,255,250,254,251,252,253],"class_list":["post-86771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga","category-gadgets","tag-amiga","tag-checkmate","tag-display","tag-ips","tag-jones","tag-monitor","tag-retro","tag-stephen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86773,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86771\/revisions\/86773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}