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noone_youknow • today at 1:28 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

In the context of the Amiga you didn’t need to change the signal frequency, the underlying video signal stayed the same.

For wider pixels, the hardware just drew each pixel for longer, and for taller pixels each pixel spanned more lines.

Pixels weren’t real in the CRT days :)


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fallat • today at 2:19 PM

In a sense pixels arent even real today right? It's an abstraction

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jdswain • today at 8:10 PM

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