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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (Non) Square Pixels?
Message-ID: <223@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 18 Feb 90 22:42:31 GMT
References: <11026@baldrick.udel.EDU>
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Reply-To: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mq.oz (Ian Farquhar)
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In article <11026@baldrick.udel.EDU> Hartupee.Pasa@xerox.com writes:
>
>/* Aspect ratios: The proper fraction xAspect/yAspect represents the pixel
> * aspect ratio pixel_width/pixel_height.
> *

[some deleted...]

>#define x320x200Aspect 10
>#define y320x200Aspect 11
>#define x320x400Aspect 20
>#define y320x400Aspect 11
>#define x640x200Aspect  5
>#define y640x200Aspect 11
>#define x640x400Aspect 10
>#define y640x400Aspect 11

Only for NTSC machines.  PAL machines have different aspect ratios
necessitated by our 625 line format.

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