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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <51@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 91 10:03:05 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

"These are not new video MODES, they are always the same scale/pixel
rate. I wonder how Quickdraw would react to a screen with a wierd
resolution (like say 451 pixels by 399 pixels) methinkgs quickdraw
would not scale properly since scaling pictures and coordinates to
uneven resolution requires quantizing and dithering which would
reduce QuickDraw to a TurtleTrotDraw."

That's just it. It wouldn't SCALE anything. It would draw what can fit in
that many pixels, pixel-for-pixel. No scaling anything. It's interesting 
that, according to posts I've seen recently, the Amiga and Macintosh are
both flexible in the types of monitors they will work with but took totally
different approaches.