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By: Frank Busse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On: 17-Nov-01 14:19:50 Re: [md-2] Re: messagelist and screens more than 127 charakters width On 17-Nov-01, you wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:14:04 -0800 wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hello Mike. > >> > because I now own a new 18"-TFT-monitor, I switched all screenmodes to >> > 1280x1024. Before this MicroDot-II was running in 800x600. Now I have >> > strange effect. I tried some fonts, some bigger fonts too, but allways >> > these strange effects. In some messagelists some messages are selected >> > and I can't unselect them by pressing space. Only with the menue >> > "Edit/Select none" I can deselect all these. Some of these selected >> > messages are bold. > >> Not to criticize, but you can overdo resolution. I have a 17" monitor, >> and run my browsers at 1024x768x16 (the highest resolution I can get >> with my 2 meg Spectrum at 16 bit), but I still run Microdot, YAM and a >> lot of other programs as 800x600x8 or 16 because they were meant for >> smaller resolutions, and work better that way, and increased resolution >> really does nothing for them, I've tried it. Your large font that works >> is just essentially turning the display back to look like 800x600. I >> have a friend who says this looks better, but frankly with text programs >> like Microdot, I don't see it. > > A TFT-Monitor has a defined amount of horizontal and vertical pixel. > My 18"-TFT have 1280x1024 pixel. If you use lower resolutions like > 800x600 or 1024x768 you get a accordingly smaller, centered picture. > You can zoom this to full screen size, but then the pixels will be > interpolated and this results in a soften screen. This softening > effect can be reduzed by optimizing the monitor. While playing this > games this softening doesn't matter, but while reading/writing text I > prefer a sharper display. I've heard of these monitors before, and missed that. I fear larger fonts will be your only choice. Regards -- Mike Leavitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] + team Amiga + __________________________________________________________________ MicroDot-II Mailing List - http://www.vapor.com/md2/ MicroDot-II FAQ: http://faq.vapor.com/md2/ Listserver Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=HELP Unsubscribe....: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=UNSUBSCRIBE
