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Subject: Mac compatibility
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Joe Angell writes:
>Don't mean to be rude about this, but if you RTFM, it should help. On
>page 46 of the Toaster 4000 manual (LW section) it has the answer: select
>"Square Pixels" from the little pop-up menu that usually says Toaster/D2.
>That'll use square pixels. I guess you can't blame Macs for being the
>least compatible of computers -- but you can blame Apple...
-- Joe
This is incredibly wrong-headed. Square pixels are a boon to those
working in 2D animation--ever rotate a brush in DPaint?
For the Amiga to slavishly have rectangular pixels like the IBM piece
o' crap was a serious shortcoming.
One can slam the Mac for many things, but square pixels ain't one of
them. (If Apple had priced them competitively, the Amiga would have been
slugging it out with Macs instead of clones, and Bill Gates would be