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Re: Strange graphic modes..

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From: Fabio Bizzetti
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:05
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>> >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... :^)

>er, actually...  the C64 had two resolutions, 320x200 and 160x100.

it was 160*200, not 160*100.

>if i
>understand correctly, the PAL (european) version also had an extended (i.e.
>kludged tweaked :) resolution of 320x240.

nope.. C64 was only 320*200/160*200 (not counting -8 for scrolling case).

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