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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Synnovision
Message-ID: <15919@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 20 Apr 91 23:12:27 GMT
References: <9104200324.AA14018@apple.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <9104200324.AA14018@apple.com> dlyons@APPLE.COM (David A. Lyons) writes:
>The main part of the problem is that a large fraction of commercial and
>other applications *bypass QuickDraw* and write directly to the screen.

Right, but the standard screen is still supported, even though I have
a VOC installed.  (I'm looping the motherboard sync to the VOC.)

>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.)

Whether or not the pixels appear "square" is a function of many things,
and anyway it is not a big deal for most purposes.  I would rather have
twice as many vertical lines of resolution than preserving the current
images (and the current fonts are overly "tall", in my opinion, due to
low vertical resolution).