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- From: Dale_Adams@gateway.qm.apple.com (Dale Adams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Emplant ideas
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.195305.18421@pcnntp.apple.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:53:05 GMT
- Sender: news@pcnntp.apple.com
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc.
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- In article <jdrew.0jxj@cryo.rain.com> jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
- writes:
- > Again, we are dealing with a MAC here. The video size is hard coded in
- > the declaration ROM. We can make various video sizes, however, the MAC
- > software *must* support them or *boom!*. The MAC doesn't have the
- > features of the Amiga. ;-)
-
- Maybe a very limited and/or old video card only has a single resolution
- hard-coded, but that's pretty rare in the Macintosh world anymore. Most
- Mac video cards support a variety of resolutions and video timings (e.g.,
- the Quadra I'm typing this on supports well over 10). If you're emulating
- a video card in software, why not at least provide all the standard Amiga
- resolutions - or perhaps look at what the current screen size is and use
- that? Mac software has no fixed requirements for a specific set of
- resolutions and should be able to support any size you want or your Amiga
- can provide (not to mention contiguous desktop support across multiple
- monitors and pixel depths).
-
- - Dale Adams
-