STraTOS 1997 April & May/STraTOS 1 - 1997 April & May.iso/CD01/INTERNET/SITES/RAND/ALL96.LZH/t0115/text0023.txt

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> On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Magnus Kollberg wrote:
>
> > > > Perhaps we shouldn't think too much about the current Falcons and their
> > > > limitations?  People using Afterburner-Falcons, and hopefully the new
> > > > 040 C-Lab Falcons (am I too optimistic ;-?) will love to use high
> > > > resolution mode. We others can always reduce the screen size...
> > >
> > > Ohh, yeah. So what's the downside about using a stretched screen then?
> > > Most people actually like having a bigger screen, even if it means that
> > > the pixels get bigger (me included).
> >
> > Whatis this talk about 040 C-Lab falcon anyway? Have they said anything about
> > such a computer coming out?
>
> Yes, they have... But how they're going to do it, there's no telling.
> Some ideas have been told about in-built Afterburner accelerator.

Hmmm.. interesting. Is this the machine called Mark-3?
I would prefer that they did it right from the beginning, not just keep
pushing the limits with the current falcon. Soon they will have reached as far
as the falcon can be pushed and they have to come up with something new.

> > To get back to the screensize, I think you should be able to set up your screen
> > as you want it. I would also prefer blocky pixels before a small screen.
>
> Hmmmm.... Perhaps. Still, the blockiness of graphics in PC VGA games has
> always annoyed me. Many ST-games looked better in RGB monitor than PC games
> in VGA; somehow RGB with its limited physical resolution helped to soften
> the pixel-borders ;-)...  I find it a little hard to play a VGA-game when
> the pixels are too large - but this is a matter of taste, after all.

And that is why you should be able to set up the screen excatly like _you_ want
it. :-)

//Magnus Kollberg