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0 pointszimpenfish6y ago0 comments

Tasword didn't do sub-pixel tricks, did it? Certainly didn't on the Spectrum to get 64 columns on a 32 column display - they just drew the letters themselves instead of using system output. I'd imagine the C64 version was exactly the same?

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Yetanfou6y ago

No, in the age of CRT monitors it did not make sense to mess with subpixels as those do not have a fixed relationship between actual display RGB-triplets and the displayed bitmap. Apart from that the C64 could only display 16 colours which is not enough to play those tricks.

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