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> By sensible arguments, they are usually squares in the sense that a 10*10 pixel area will be square My first computers were Amigas, whose display elements ("
by chriswarbo 4y ago
> By sensible arguments, they are usually squares in the sense that a 10*10 pixel area will be square
My first computers were Amigas, whose display elements ("screen pixels") were rectangles, but certainly non-square ;)
- unwind 4y agoOver here in Europe (PAL) land, Amiga low resolution (320x256) was actually a mode with square pixels! It seems [1] the aspect ratio for the NTSC low-res was 44:52 = 22:26 = 11:13 which is a bit off but teenage demo-coder me would probably not have cared much (not that I ever saw an NTSC Amiga). :) [1]: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/AmigaMail_Vol2_guide/node00CB.html http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/AmigaMail_Vol2_guid...
- cubefox 4y agoYeah, that's why I continued > Otherwise they are non-square rectangles.