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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Duet card reservations (was:Re: GS/MAC card)
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Date: 5 Oct 90 08:20:13 GMT
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In article <9010050235.AA08340@cwns11.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa404@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>Category 24,  Topic 5
>Message 92        Mon Jul 30, 1990
>UNCLE-DOS [ Tom W ]          at 16:59 EDT
>
>  Duet's screen output will appear on the IIgs screen, so the horizontal
>resolution will be more than a standard Mac--enough for 80 columns!--but
>the vertical resolution will be about half that of the standard Mac.
>This shouldn't be a problem since the Mac's screen size is definable as
>part of the operating system and their are tools available to create
>"virtual screens" that are bigger than the monitor and to scroll around
>them.

	This is my reservation about the card that most likely will
make me not buy the card. Of course I will give it a thorough lookover
once it actually comes out... [Note: Even though I've said I don't
want to "upgrade" to a Mac and wouldn't buy a Mac system by itself,
that doesn't mean I wouldn't buy a Mac card for my GS.]

	I am not saying I'd buy this to play games either, but games
show a big problem with using the GS resolution.

	Take Dark Castle for example (the game that I'm probably most
personally familiar with on the Mac)... You don't play it in a window..
(yes, I guess it has a Grafport window, etc.. I may be using that term
incorrectly since I've not done Toolbox programming yet and have just
skimmed parts of the toolbox books to get used to the toolbox before I
start programming with it)...

	So since you're not playing in a window, it's assuming it has
all 525 (or whatever) lines of the Mac display.. So how would this
be played on the GS with a Duet card?

	It seems to me that it WOULDN'T.. unless the Duet card will
vertically compress stuff (ick!) through some algorithm..

	Now programs that use scrollable windows with the arrows and
thumbs should work perfectly because it's just like making a Finder window
half it's normal size... The scroll bars and thumb adjust themselves...

	But on non-window programs, it seems to me they WILL NOT RUN.

	If I'm totally wrong, please correct me and tell me WHY I'm wrong.

	I just hope they add video output to the card so it outputs
at LEAST the standard original 128K Mac resolution.. but with the 
GS's color capabilities so somehow the GS could still be involved in the
video somehow... [Boy, as a prospective engineer, I'm sure using a lot of
"somehow"s!]

	Even -IF- you would need a new monitor, I feel it's better than
using non-square-pixels to emulate a Mac. That's one of my biggest
raves about the Mac... square pixels..
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