Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!think!mit-eddie!mit-amt!mit-atrp!ralph From: ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Amiga-Man) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re: The trouble with the Amiga Message-ID: <576@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 16-Dec-86 03:02:10 EST Article-I.D.: mit-amt.576 Posted: Tue Dec 16 03:02:10 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Dec-86 04:28:45 EST References: <1257@cadovax.UUCP> <1118@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1119@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Sender: usenet@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: ralph@ATRP.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amiga-Man) Distribution: na Organization: MIT Amiga Users Group Lines: 37 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.