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Just a little side-note you might find interesting: In the home computer era, when 8x8 bitmap fonts had their heyday, displays often had rectangular pixels. So
by weinzierl 3y ago
Just a little side-note you might find interesting:
In the home computer era, when 8x8 bitmap fonts had their heyday, displays often had rectangular pixels. So, while the characters look square now, they often did not back then.
- damieng 3y agoMost of the 8-bit machines had quite square pixels (Spectrum, Commodore 64) but machines with multiple resolutions often had modes that doubled the horizontal res (C128, PCW, BBC Mode 3) giving rectangular pixels and by the time the 16-bits hit (Amiga, Atari ST) these modes were commonly the default and square pixels were relegated to "low-res" modes which were used less often.