Timeline for Visible resolution of C64 video output, including borders
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| Oct 26, 2018 at 0:02 | vote | accept | Cactus | ||
| Jul 31, 2018 at 10:35 | answer | added | JimmyB | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 18:00 | comment | added | Tommy | @MichaelKjörling my guess is that the 40-column width of a C64 screen is more about 40 columns being a good number if you can't do 80 and being a decent width. Though it might be a lesson learnt; the NTSC Vic-20 also does 65 cycles per line but fills 44 of them with (lower-resolution) pixels. So by default it attempts to show a display 10% wider than the C64. Also, unlike the VIC-I, the VIC-II has internal storage which might suggest more consideration having gone into the mandated screen size. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 15:51 | comment | added | user | Consider: If the computer legitimately drew something outside of the addressable area, then why not make that addressable? Even a few dozen extra addressable pixels horizontally and vertically would have made a big difference on that class of system, at a somewhat modest (not saying "cheap") memory cost. Since they weren't addressable, there is probably a good reason why not. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 11:43 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @Cumbayah Maybe because people feel that voting on a question is about the question, not the answers? | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 11:43 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | @Cumbayah My guess is it's because it doesn't show research effort ? Or possibly because the words "pixel" and "resolution" don't quite fit what's being asked about. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 11:18 | comment | added | user6576 | Don't see why this would be down voted, while the question is based on an incomplete understanding of the video output, there are some great answers below clarifying that, that would likely be helpful for others as well. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:13 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 8:25 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | You might find more information that's interesting to you over on my question about VIC-II timings retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/3208/… | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 7:54 | answer | added | Omar and Lorraine | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 7:22 | history | asked | Cactus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |