Open source, stand alone, ASCII terminal project

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Mon Dec 1 16:46:13 CST 2008


In article <493456E7.7000609 at gmail.com>,
    Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>  writes:

> Hmm, I don't suppose NTSC TV is good enough to offer 80x25 text on a TV set, 
> is it?

I think the best you could get is 40x24 or even less without the fonts
becoming a big mushy blur.

ISTR that is why the Apple ][ and C=64 had such low text resolution --
so that ordinary NTSC monitors/TVs could be used.
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