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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 11 Jun 91 18:05:00 GMT
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dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>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.


Look at it this way... the only way to get more pixels on a Mac is to buy a
bigger monitor.  on the Amiga you might need a BETTER monitor, but not a
BIGGER monitor.  Every mac person is fond of claiming this Radius L-View. 
which is great.. however it's the ONLY such product, and it's limited.. the
pixels are STILL square.  a 32 dpi disply only makes pixels over 2x bigger
BOTH ways, no flexibility in vertical/horizontal display.  Also, there seems
to be a BIG mis-understanding over the term SCREEN.  Screen on the Mac means
Monitor, Screen on the Amiga, means virtual screen.  you can have multiple
virtual screens ON THE SAME MONITOR.  something you can't do on the Mac.  you
can have differing resolutions on these screens and they can overlap each
other so that say the top 1/3 of the screen is in a 640x400 resolution the
middle third is in a 640x200, and the bottom third being a 320x400 resolution.
 THIS is flexibility.  THIS is not possible on ANY mac with ANY product.  I've
just named something that is IMPOSSIBLE on a Mac, now you name something that
is IMPOSSIBLE to do on an Amiga, that you can do on a MAC.  I'm not talking
about things that are weakly supported.. like the clipboard.

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