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From: Erik Mooney <emooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [stella] Build up the FAQ bit by bit
> Don't give it a vertical resolution, because that makes people start
> thinking its like the bitmaps of PC graphics displays. And minor peeve of
> mine - never ever use "pixel" to mean anything other than a single
> indivisible rectangle on screen.
>
>The playfield is the backgroung graphics on which other objects will
>animate. It's 40 blocks across the screen, each block being 4 pixels
>wide. (pet peeve of mine - rectangle on screen, it just confuses things.)
Oh nooo... you're one of THOSE people. ;-)
A pixel is the smallest individually addressable display element, period.
So yes, the size of a pixel varies according to what resolution you're in.
And yes, you can have different-sized pixels onscreen simultaneously.
If you want to specify the size of screen elements in absolute terms, that's
what color clocks and scanlines are for.
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