14 Dec
1998
14 Dec
'98
9:09 a.m.
At 07:59 PM 12/14/98 -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
No. I've seen 64-column text on typical mid-70s NTSC televisions, and it was
abysmal. The televisions had to be modified to remove their color trap
in order to get reasonably sharp characters.
I remember when the Amiga was first launched, its composite output
was purported to be able to drive 80 columns on an ordinary TV.
Was it a matter of televisions improving in the same time period,
or that they might've been talking about monochrome as opposed to
color? Certainly NTSC color has a hard time changing quickly, its
resolution is only a hundred or so lines across, isn't it, while
gray-scale resolution is as much four or five times that?
- John