Re: A86: (Comments about TI - new platforms.. etc.. and stuff)

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Subject: Re: A86: (Comments about TI - new platforms.. etc.. and stuff)
From: David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 00:03:52 -0500
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They were referring to the slow refresh rate (update) of the LCD.  When you
play a game with fast graphics or that scrolls the screen like Sqrxz the
entire screen blurs.  This is because the LCD is not refreshed fast enough.
 A faster refresh rate would allow 3D games to look reasonable as well.

At 06:47 PM 8/16/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>i don't know how blurry the 86 lcd is exactly...what i'd ask for is just more
>pixels per square inch (or centimeter or whatever).  the real trouble is that
>fine detail cannot be attained with such large pixels.
>
>another request for the lcd is square pixels, because these rectangular ones
>look really weird when you draw squares, plus (hey, this ties into the
>mathematical aspect, too!) graphs aren't to scale.  y1=x doesn't draw a 45
>degree line from lower left to upper right, it draws a really distorted line.
>zsquare should not be neccessary to make up for this. just make normal,
square
>pixels.
>

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