[vcf-midatlantic] Old Video Game Advertisements - musing on 80 column TV

[Douglas Crawford]

Thanks! I didn't know that Amiga had that ability.
Fortunately I sprang for the Amiga monitor.

On 8/14/2022 5:38 PM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2022, 16:47 Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
>> ...Wonder how they wangled the bandwidth for clear 64 char text
>> on their alleged TV monitor?
>>
> 
> 64 columns is viable on NTSC hardware, 80 is just too fuzzy.
> 
> It's why the A1000 had a Workbench software "switch" (default font size
> option essentially),  between 64 and 80 columns for full-screen-width CLI
> windows... TV vs RGB monitor
> 
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