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From: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Screen Resolution
Message-ID: <2390@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 90 18:45:56 GMT
References: <9003060807.AA07463@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <190@raider.MFEE.TN.US>
Reply-To: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <190@raider.MFEE.TN.US> dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Dana L. Holt) writes:
 >In article <9003060807.AA07463@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, FRACHEL@UMIAMI.MIAMI.EDU writes:
 >> I am writing a program in personal pascal v2.0, and i need to know the
 >> screen sizes (in pixels) for each resolution.
 >> 
 >> Thanks,
 >> 
 >>   Frank Rachel
 >>         
 >
 >	I believe it is as follows...
 >
 > Low rez - 320x200
 > Med rez - 640x200
 >  Hi rez - 640x400
 >	
 >	First # is the horizontal pixel count, second is the vert. pixel count.
 >					dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US

Surely there must be some OS call you can do to get this information... You
should NEVER hard-code in specific pixel counts, if you do, your software
will not work with any kind of non-standard screen or "overscan mod" or
etc...

---jb