Date   : Sat, 30 Dec 2000 15:32:13 +0000
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Aspect ratio of BBC screen?

In article <NDBBIEGJPLKLGGJFKFPDGEHICBAA.mark@...>, Mark de
Weger <mark@...> writes

>Can anyone tell me what the aspect ratio of actual BBC screens is? (I don't
>have a BBC at hand to test.) I thought I inferred from old Acorn
>documentation it's 1.25. 

That seems right to me.  Internally, the graphics modes are all
1280x1024 (the actual graphics resolution is mapped onto this), giving a
ratio of 1.25.

No idea why the emulators should be different - perhaps to map the BBC
screen onto the VGA modes? (800x600 is 1.33, as are 640x480 and
1024x768)

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