Re: [GD-General] More screen res love (tile graphics)

[~BG~ <arc...@ma...>]

On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 12:12  PM,  
phi...@pl... wrote:

> PS Mac games used to have this problem, as the only way you could  
> change
> screen resolution, was by plugging in a different monitor, plus they  
> had
> multiple monitors way back in the early 90s. This was due to Mac's  
> having a
> fixed dpi, which in turne was not for any strong technical reason, but  
> for
> some strange reason that I'm sure was not unrelated to Steve Job's  
> reality
> distortion field. I believe this changed around System 8, but since the
> last one I worked on was System 7.5, I can't be sure.

Actually IIRC it was done to maintain 1:1 pixel/point ratio with print.  
Print also played a big role in the standard gamma differences between  
Macs and Windows PCs at the time as well...

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