[Coco] Re: Re: again: CoCo RGB to VGA conversion

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Mike

Leterbox is the best description. Inserting about 200 border lines,  
100 ab ove and 100 below will make the display look like a letterbox 
display.

james

On 23 Aug 2004 at 19:46, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

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> In a message dated 8/23/04 2:58:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> james at skwirl.ca writes:
> 
> > Unless the converter scales it up, right? For instance, doubling the
> > width
> >  and height of each pixel to fit a larger screen.
> 
> It's hard for a converter to scale up a line to a fraction of a line,
> such as 1.5 lines (without some significant gray-level anti-aliasing).
> 
> Let's see, the VGA has 480 lines.  Straight Coco3 has 384, or 80%, so
> you have 10% of the total screen height blank at top and bottom.  Not
> too bad. 
> 
> RSBASIC and maybe even OS-9 can be poked up to 200 high, or 400 out of
> 480. Some BASIC hackers claim to have hit 225, or 450 out of 480. 
> 
> Tell your friends you have the director's cut "letterboxed" edition
> :-) Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it.  --Mike K.
> 
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