Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!taob
From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Synnovision
Message-ID: <636@generic.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 91 04:15:06 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON
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From dlyons@APPLE.COM (David A. Lyons):

> If this problem were solved, then using 640x400 on the video overlay card
> would be a problem because everything drawn would be squashed to half
> height.  (On the mac you always have square pixels; resolution changes
> but aspect ratio does not.)

    But 320x200 has the same aspect ratio as 640x400, but icons still turn out
OK (i.e., in the Control Panel).  Things might look squashed, but at least
nothing will run off the right side of the screen, since there are still 640
pixels across.  Besides, having 640x400 resolution does not preclude the
application from using 640x200.  Existing apps would still call up the 640x200
mode in QuickDraw II, and any new programs can take advantage of the higher
video.

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."