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Article #2532Re: Tiny screen; large border
From: Ken Badertscher
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 22:16
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 22:16
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calengr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (California Engineer Magazine) writes: | My Atari 520ST is over three years old now, but I just | realized that my screen size is much smaller than the | monitor's screen size. That's right, and there's a reason for it. The monitor is adjusted at the factory that way so that it has a 1:1 aspect ratio. That way, when you draw a circle on your monochrome screen, what you see really looks like a circle. And when the VDI drivers draw graphical text, the characters can be scaled so that what you see is the actual size of what you get, and not distorted. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include <disclaimer>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!portal!atari!kbad From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Tiny screen; large border Message-ID: <1618@atari.UUCP> Date: 21 Jul 89 22:16:47 GMT References: <15634@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 18