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From: ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Amiga-Man)
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Subject: Re: Re: The trouble with the Amiga
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Date: Tue, 16-Dec-86 03:02:10 EST
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In article <1119@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP
      (Carolyn Scheppner) writes:
>
>   I don't think it was "programmer laziness".  A non-aspected pixel 
>for pixel dump distorts the aspect ratio of the original image.  The 
>printout will be stretched in either X or Y (depending on the res of
>the display screen).  Fonts are stretched, the Clock becomes an oval,
>etc. 
>
>   This was probably viewed as not desirable and therefore not
>offered as an option.
>

Uh...I beg to disagree. People like me want to make fine line drawings
with DPaint for technical figures and the like. We cannot live
with flakey pixels ( i.e. special sampling to keep aspect ratio).
I think it is very unfair of the EA folks to assume only a limited set
of applications for something as generally useful as a paint program.
I can only hope that such shortsightedness doesn't reappear in Dpaint II.
I consider myself VERY fortunate that the Amiga, being a multitasking
machine, allowed me to use your ScreenDump program with something like
Dpaint (it actually is running multitasked....it's just real hard to get
it to give you a CLI). Thus even though the EA folks tried to leave me
in the cold, I came home to a crackling fire anyhow (whoops, holiday
spirit).

I realize it's hard to guess just how a program you write will be used,
but I try to write mine with as many options as I can guess will be useful.

Along the same lines, I use my Amiga in full 640x400 interlace mode
most of the time. I need the resolution !  Too many programs don't
run interlaced (or offer an option) because they're afraid of screen
flicker. This is unjustified. By using lower ambient light levels, and
intelligent screen colors, the normal Amiga montior is usable. And
eventually I'll get a long persistance monitor somewhere.

                                            Ralph, A.G.S.