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Were they really all this low-res?
by qwerty456127 4y ago
Were they really all this low-res?
- nikau 4y agoThey looked better on CRT displays of the era
- ace2358 4y agoI’d believe it. It’s my understanding that a current iPhone app icon is almost the same resolution as the first Macintosh screen. Crazy times! Have to remember that the old CRT screens took pixelated images and gave the a smooth glowing look.
- qwerty456127 4y agoWell, I thought the logos were sort of splash screens meant to be displayed full-screen. Perhaps the very first Mac did, but I can't believe a Sun workstation would have a 100-pixels display. Good CRTs indeed make everything look amazing though. E.g. a 240p video can look beautiful on a 19-inch Trinitron.
- mdehling 4y agoYep. Standard Sun resolution for the longest time was 1152x900. The little B&W logos are 64x64 and most of the newer ones are 100x100 so like 9% of the screen width.