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Re: Strange graphic modes..

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From: Fabio Bizzetti
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:35
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>(This has been crossposted to amiga.demos and amiga.graphics)

>In article <4kgqme$2dh@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>,
>DAVID LIEBERMANN  <deel@ldvgpi02.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>>
>>I have collected quite some pictures from competitions and from other
>>sources and I just lately wondered if there is a special program around
>>to view all pictures in the correct aspect ratio. For example, I wonder
>>what resolution is best for strange sizes like 640x512 (like lots of
>>competition entries) or 320x256 (Exactly half in x&y. Maybe there is a
>>640x512 resolution (with doublescan in both x and y ??) that my card
>>doesn't know..). And I also got some pictures in 368x283. Where are
>>those from ??

>Those are mostly Amiga modes, with the last one looking vaguely
>like a C64 resolution.


Since when C64's VicII had 368x283?
Now that I think about.. it was rather a ZX80 resolution... :^)

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