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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Duet card reservations (was:Re: GS/MAC card)
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Date: 7 Oct 90 23:45:53 GMT
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In article <1990Oct6.172736.4816@athena.mit.edu> tbandit@athena.mit.edu (Carlos E Reategui) writes:
>Well, the Mac's display is 512x384 for the 9" screen, not 525 vertical lines,
>so there shouldn't be a problem there. Additionally, Dark Castle *does*
>work in a window.  The window is the exact size of the 9" screen, but if
>you run Dark Castle on a larger monitor (say the 640x480 Mac II screen),
>the playing field will be in a window, centered on the screen. It's safe
>to say that programs that hog the whole screen are considered "non-well-
>behaved" as far as the Mac is concerned.

	Ok, I was wrong about the actual numbers, but I don't see how
your explanation would solve the problem...

	Even with 384 vertical pixels, it's almost twice as big as
the GS's 200 vertical pixels. So Dark Castle, which doesn't put itself
in a scrollable window, wouldn't run, correct? I'm inferring that you're
including Dark Castle in the "non-well-behaved" category.

	Unfortunately, it would seem that the games I can think of would
all fall into that non-well-behaved category..
	
	And the fact that we're not using square pixels, it wouldn't be
too fun to use a Mac specific drawing/CAD package.  And using a Mac
word processor would be basically like using GS specific word processors
I presume.

	So I honestly don't see where the market for this thing is. And, in
my opinion, ALL OF THE PROBLEMS come from the "video problem". Maybe that's
because I think one of the few advantages of the Mac is square pixels.

	If people can give me constructive replies to my comments, I'd
appreciate it. Maybe my views of this Duet card could even be altered so
I'd buy one... (I was pretty much on the "if it's as good as it seems, I'll
certainly buy one" list until I found out it uses regular GS graphics)


	By the way, as an aside, Matt Deatherage has been unsubscribed to
comp.sys.apple2 for a while now and has no plans to resubscribe. It's 
because of all the whining and complaining that goes on around here. Hey,
I'm the first to admit I'm one of the whiners and complainers, I just
thought some people might want to know what happened to him.

	AND, as he said when I asked him if I could tell everyone this,
DO NOT FILL HIS mailbox with technical questions. He does -NOT- want to
be mailed tech questions!
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