Re: [stella] Screen shots

Subject: Re: [stella] Screen shots
From: "John Saeger" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:10:06 -0800
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From: Nick S Bensema <nickb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [stella] Screen shots


>
>Perhaps we wouldn't need any more than 320x200 anyway.  Instead of doubling
>the pixels to create 160x200, we just switch from venetian blinds to
>vertical blinds and put the even-numbered scanlines on even-numbered
>columns.  Piece of cake.

Too cool !!  But if you're running in a tweaked mode, the difference between
the even pixels and the odd pixels is merely a setting in a bank-switch
register.  It just doesn't get much easier than that.  May even run faster
than mode 13.

John



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