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What's the resolution on the touch bar?

by jdalgetty 10y ago

khedoros1 10y ago
2170x60
- astrodust 10y ago
  I can only imagine the company sourcing these displays thought that was a typo. It's such a crazy aspect ratio. In another universe that touchbar would be used to relentlessly hound people with advertising since a classic 468x60 ad would snug right in there.
  - toyg 10y ago
    Give it a few months, and that "other universe" will silently merge with our own. YOU HAVE BEEN INFECTED - CLICK HERE TO CLEAN IT! <click> ... <touchbar gets full of jumping monkeys> HIT THE MONKEY TO WIN $$$$$ !
    - lloeki 10y ago
      Just wait for the Chrome team to make it have a JS API
  - drcode 10y ago
    They probably thought Apple was building one of these: http://www.startrek.com/database_article/la-forge-Geordi http://www.startrek.com/database_article/la-forge-Geordi
    - walrus01 10y ago
      http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/can-t-see-shit-captain http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/can-t-see-shit-captain
  - nkrisc 10y ago
    Why stop at one when you can fit four?
- Achshar 10y ago
  Wouldn't something like Mario be a better fit for that resolution.
  - khedoros1 10y ago
    Gameplay would be rough, but it would be cool to modify an emulator to render a level preview into the Bar, with a yellow box showing the current player location, or something.
    - zokier 10y ago
      I think NES Mario was originally rendered at 240px height with 16x16 tiles, so to fit that into 60px tall display would neatly be a div by four, with 4x4 tiles. Could be barely playable as-is, and definitely usable as a "minimap"
      - khedoros1 10y ago
        Yep, The NES's original rendering is 256x240, naturally stretched to a 4:3 aspect ratio. Since TVs tended to be a little "off", Nintendo also recommended not putting anything important in the top+bottom 8 pixels, so all the important info should be in an area 256x224. The hardware used 8x8 tiles, 16x16 color zones in the background, and could group foreground sprites into 8*16 pairs. Games also triggered various interrupts and flag registers based on tile location+overlap, so you'd need to render at the full size, then scale down for display.
  - biot 10y ago
    Sideways Tetris. Or find a way to have a simple multiplayer game share the same keyboard. 8 people at 270x60 would allow for one window each.
    - oneeyedpigeon 10y ago
      Or you could have a really slow, boring, easy version of Pong...
  - 10y ago
- dividuum 10y ago
  So the perfect resolution to have a 22 player coop run. 96x60 should be enough to play. I think our mobile phone in a slide projector project we did 14 years ago should proof that. Of course we also ran doom on that one. You can see the project here: https://dividuum.de/download/beamer/ https://dividuum.de/download/beamer/

What's the resolution on the touch bar?

khedoros1 10y ago

2170x60

astrodust 10y ago
I can only imagine the company sourcing these displays thought that was a typo. It's such a crazy aspect ratio. In another universe that touchbar would be used to relentlessly hound people with advertising since a classic 468x60 ad would snug right in there.
- toyg 10y ago
  Give it a few months, and that "other universe" will silently merge with our own. YOU HAVE BEEN INFECTED - CLICK HERE TO CLEAN IT! <click> ... <touchbar gets full of jumping monkeys> HIT THE MONKEY TO WIN $$$$$ !
  - lloeki 10y ago
    Just wait for the Chrome team to make it have a JS API
- drcode 10y ago
  They probably thought Apple was building one of these: http://www.startrek.com/database_article/la-forge-Geordi http://www.startrek.com/database_article/la-forge-Geordi
  - walrus01 10y ago
    http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/can-t-see-shit-captain http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/can-t-see-shit-captain
- nkrisc 10y ago
  Why stop at one when you can fit four?
Achshar 10y ago
Wouldn't something like Mario be a better fit for that resolution.
- khedoros1 10y ago
  Gameplay would be rough, but it would be cool to modify an emulator to render a level preview into the Bar, with a yellow box showing the current player location, or something.
  - zokier 10y ago
    I think NES Mario was originally rendered at 240px height with 16x16 tiles, so to fit that into 60px tall display would neatly be a div by four, with 4x4 tiles. Could be barely playable as-is, and definitely usable as a "minimap"
    - khedoros1 10y ago
      Yep, The NES's original rendering is 256x240, naturally stretched to a 4:3 aspect ratio. Since TVs tended to be a little "off", Nintendo also recommended not putting anything important in the top+bottom 8 pixels, so all the important info should be in an area 256x224. The hardware used 8x8 tiles, 16x16 color zones in the background, and could group foreground sprites into 8*16 pairs. Games also triggered various interrupts and flag registers based on tile location+overlap, so you'd need to render at the full size, then scale down for display.
- biot 10y ago
  Sideways Tetris. Or find a way to have a simple multiplayer game share the same keyboard. 8 people at 270x60 would allow for one window each.
  - oneeyedpigeon 10y ago
    Or you could have a really slow, boring, easy version of Pong...
- 10y ago
dividuum 10y ago
So the perfect resolution to have a 22 player coop run. 96x60 should be enough to play. I think our mobile phone in a slide projector project we did 14 years ago should proof that. Of course we also ran doom on that one. You can see the project here: https://dividuum.de/download/beamer/ https://dividuum.de/download/beamer/