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Exactly. A TV will more likely show the correct aspect ratio since they don't have accessible height controls.
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Or a broadcast monitor, those should be the perfect measure.
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At least as long as it hasn't been used by gamers.
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I mentioned what I think would be "correct" aspect ratios in this post.
For NTSC, the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual implies (or at least alludes to) the same NTSC pixel aspect ratio as mentioned there, 6:7. And a 4:3 visible region (centred on the default Intuition screen position) of 336×216 low-res pixels. Which is a nice round 8 pixels on each edge past the non-overscan 320×200 region. For PAL, pixel aspect ratio of 26:25 is good enough, and at least in emulation my pixel aspect ratio OCD isn't bad enough to bother with trying to achieve that. [In other words, I just use 1:1 in emulation.] Of course back in the day, probably like most people with a 1084 monitor I just adjusted image size to make it as large as possible with the default 640×256 PAL Workbench still completely visible. |
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In 1.3 I used Johnathan Potter's PPrefs to adjust the overscan. http://amiga-fish.erkan.se/amiga-fis...ontent-PPrefs/ |
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Did you guys not stretch the image up on certain games to attain full screen? I did. I unfortunately touched those controls more than I ever should :P
I can't remember exactly which game it was, but there was one where I stretched the vert so much the scanlines got reaaaally wide |
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Couldn't do that with your basic 14" Colour TV without opening it up and poking around inside, and I didn't know anyone with a monitor attached to their Amigas.
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Yes I forgot about the v and h controls.
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I didn't know back then that NTSC games were supposed to fill the screen. I guess I thought their screens were smaller or something
What's weird though is there are games that leave the PAL sized area unused that don't actually work on NTSC Amigas. |
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Photon, what do you mean about 16 scanline skips?
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One problem with the method though. Not all versions of Deluxe Paint will draw a perfect square. Usually the tool will draw a Xpx by Xpx image, but if your screen is squished because it's NTSC, when it gets stretched, they will look tall. I realized this while testing this same issue for a very troll-friendly thread here : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=82793 |
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In 2011, the scaler chips in LCD TVs mentioned became decent and standardized. Before that, results varied. You could get a blurry picture even on RGB Scart, you could get a sharp picture with doubled lines, or if the LCD resolution was lower than 800x600 (such as on smaller 4:3 TVs), you could get a sharp picture, but it would squash 320x256 to 4:3 and skip 16 scanlines - every nth line. It was just a bunch of different chips that did things differently.
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I do go through graphics drawn on NTSC displays, and certainly all graphics drawn for PAL or square pixels will look stretched on NTSC - graphics drawn for square pixels slightly less so. Whether to draw specifically for NTSC CRT displays today is really up to the artist, but as I mention in the summary Amiga users will find a way It's all a matter of practicality, and today it just has to be square pixels I think. I've had to abandon my fierce conviction that they should be PAL pixels on CRT only; I simply don't have as many arguments against square pixels as I have for PAL-squashed pillow-shaped ones. Last edited by Photon; 20 July 2017 at 01:11. |
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I think that varies a lot more than that. All my LCDs will render my Amiga screen without scanline skipping. Do you mean yours would skip 16 rows in one go or distributed across the picture area?
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I'm not sure which version of DP had this problem,. I'll just have to illustrate to you with an example so you don't think I am a crazy person I think this got fixed from DPIII on. Basically if you are in true NTSC mode, a square will not have X and Y being equal. Do this quick test though: Grab your Deluxe Paint version, draw a 20x20 square, change screenmode to NTSC, and it should be squashed. Now if your version of Deluxe Paint is the correct one, if you make a square in NTSC, it should look fine compared to the other one. If it looks the same, it's buggy. |
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The article is meant as a final word on display and aspect ratio, with the specific goal of letting users set up their display and know what they're doing. But you are probably talking about an option in the Prefs menu. I specifically did not mention it, to avoid this kind of confusion And to do it correctly (not make the topic more complex than it is), you must eliminate variables, and there are too many variables in your example. I simply don't know what happened on your monitor in one version of DPaint when you went from one screenmode to the other. But it was probably the option. Or performing the wrong test, perhaps? |
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I'll explain by demonstrating, because I don't seem to be explaining myself properly.
No, it isn't an option. |
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