X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d1df926a113e6ecd X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-09 10:18:04 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: AsciiOS ;) Date: 09 Jan 2002 19:17:48 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 27 Message-ID: <6u1ygzjsmr.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <6u4rlzm889.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jan 2002 18:17:49 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: 9 Jan 2002 19:17:59 +0100, galapagos.ethz.ch Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:13567 =?Windows-1252?Q?Johannes_'Joey'_R=F6ssel?= writes: > > 80x50 leads to characters that are relatively "flat", not much higher > > than wide. This will distort others art. And it will led to art made > > on such a system being distorted everywhere else. > > You may have to change the art for different character sizes. But that would > take MUCH of API programming, means more difficult to port to another > system. > > > 80x30 is OK. 80x43 may still work. But 80x50 is too much. > > IMHO 80x30 and 80x43 were not really textmodes. I know they were selectable > in Word 5, but only if you'd chosen graphics mode instead of text. 80x30 today usually ist VGA 60x480 graphics. But one can set up text mode to work with that resolution. 80x43 is/was EGA (remember that one?) high density text mode. 640x344 pixel and the CGA 8x8 character matrix, wasting 6 lines. EGA used an 640x350 monitor, standard was 80x25 with 8x14 charcter matrix. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery