RE: C64 vs 128's font.

From: Christopher Phillips (cphillips_at_reflectionsinteractive.com)
Date: 2001-05-10 18:12:43

The problem with the blurryness is not so much with the
output circuitry as it is with PAL or NTSC composite
video encoding.  Alternating on/off pixels produces a
waveform at just under/over the colour burst carrier on
PAL and NTSC respectively, which will fool TVs into
producing bars of colour.  Unless the board produces
S-Video output, which has the luminance and colour
information on seperate lines.

Need to keep PETSCII around for the gfx characters.
Perhaps use ISO 8859-1 instead of the lowercase set?

(ps, I'd go for a trad. blue on blue startup screen ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter karlsson [mailto:peter@softwolves.pp.se]
> Sent: 10 May 2001 17:05
> To: cbm-hackers@dot.tml.hut.fi
> Subject: Re: C64 vs 128's font.
> 
> 
> Carlsson, Anders:
> 
> > However, the VIC font might be too thin on a high 
> resolution display.
> 
> But then again, the new display circuit might be less blurry than the
> C64/C128, so doubling the pixels as in the C64/C128 character 
> set might
> not be necessary anymore (PC displays generally work well with 1 pixel
> wide characters).
> 
> Anyway, on a related note, I'd like a move from PETSCII to some more
> standard character set, at least as an option. ISO 8859-1 would be
> nice.
> 
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