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320x200 is just stupid

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rectangular, pfft. i want hexagonal pixels!
added on the 2007-08-22 13:06:48 by 216 216
1280x256? Da Fakk!!! Maybe useful for landscape voxels rendering? :)
added on the 2007-08-22 13:15:19 by Optimus Optimus
HAM8! k im stupid :)
heh, once upon a time i managed to turn 640x480 24bpp into 1920x480 8bpp via 0x3c6-trick. didn't think it was terribly useful thing though..
added on the 2007-08-22 13:31:09 by 216 216
@Optimus
Its a product of the Amiga offering horizontal and vertical resolutions that you can mix and match (with limitations depending on the chipset version)...

So, on a PAL display, an AGA Amiga offers:

320x256
320x512
640x256
640x512
1280x256
1280x512

Although, with overscan, or if you want to use DBLPAL or multiscan modes you can have all sorts of other weird and wonderful modes.

Its nothing unique in this day and age, of course, but there was a time when a flexibly programmable video output was cool and different.

Of course, that meant that us poor Amiga owners didn't have the fun of trying to "break the borders" since the Amiga doesn't have hard defined borders (or it does but they're way out into the overscan).

The best thing, though, was the fact that lemons aren't made of custard.
added on the 2007-08-22 16:10:28 by xeron xeron
640x480.
added on the 2007-08-22 16:11:55 by rmeht rmeht
They hadn't activated the internets yesterday. It should work when I get home though. So yay!
added on the 2007-08-22 16:30:55 by doomdoom doomdoom
13x37 ?
added on the 2007-08-22 16:47:15 by oxb oxb
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80x25 :) :) :)
320x198! Golden ratio never fails! :)
added on the 2007-08-22 17:06:04 by Blueberry Blueberry
amiga pal (ecs):
352x288
352x576
704x288
704x576
amiga ntsc (ecs):
352x240
352x480
704x240
704x480
320x200 16 colors are enough..
the perverted go for 384x270 full overscan on Atari ST
added on the 2014-03-30 07:06:02 by lsl lsl
320x200 on ATM Turbo (ZX Spectrum clone) is square pixel!
presumably only on a 16:10 monitor?
added on the 2014-03-30 11:53:10 by xeron xeron
Everywhere. There is a big border.
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320x200 is ART!
added on the 2014-03-30 13:00:13 by baah baah
it is!
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remember syndicate (the first one)?
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it was one of the rare games using the 640x480x4bpp vga mode (also sometimes called super ega).
added on the 2014-03-30 14:05:09 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
Actually, that's 640x400x4 with borders.
Awww... 640x400x4 nostalgia...

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added on the 2014-03-31 11:51:08 by Exin Exin
my favourite screen mode was always "mode 36" -> 768x288, 256cols @50hz - who knows which system? :D
added on the 2014-03-31 12:33:09 by giZMo^fr giZMo^fr
Risc PC?
added on the 2014-03-31 12:38:50 by Exin Exin
What Exin says... giZMo, you're unmasked!
added on the 2014-03-31 12:44:08 by baah baah
Hehe, true true..\o/ btw. this mode was already available to humble Archimedes users many years before the RiscPC ! ( Like late 80s...)
added on the 2014-03-31 12:57:51 by giZMo^fr giZMo^fr

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