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Re: A92: Re: TI-89 Screen size and FLASH memory
I think Daniel's point was that that wouldn't work. If everyone used 800x600
screens, and all of a sudden you wanted to fit everything from an 800x600
screen on a 640x480 screen, it wouldn't work. If it did, 800x600 and 640x480
would be the same. I was actually wondering the same thing when I read TI's
page, because I immediately wondered how it was all gonna work with a
different screen size. If you want to see what I mean, take a screenshot of
your desktop with some programs running at 800x600. Be sure to save it as a
bitmap to preserve the quality completely. Then use an image editor to shrink
it to 640x480, again as a bitmap. Then view it on your computer in 640x480
mode. If my reasoning is right, it won't look as good as it did under
800x600. Since the pixels on the 92/89 are much larger than those of a
computer monitor and those screens are pure black and white instead of color
or grayscale, this effect would be much more prominent, leading me to believe
that assembly programming across platform would be impossible because of
graphics reasons.
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