IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts

Re:IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts by mechagodzilla on Sunday December 15, 2024 @03:44PM (#42425860)

The kaypro '84 variants can do 160x100 graphics (each character is a 2x4 block of pixels, and the screen is 80x25 characters).

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Re:IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts by kjs3 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @04:01PM (#42425955)

And there were add-on boards that gave higher resolution (very relatively speaking) graphics.

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Re:IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts by ddingus on Thursday December 19, 2024 @01:24PM (#42464292)

Totally understand. At that time 300 pixels horizontally by pretty much anything vertically was considered high resolution.

The cool thing about machines like the Kaypro was the dot clocks were actually pretty fast, so add on boards tended to do fairly high resolution if you got one. Might be 640 by something, or 512...

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Re:IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts by pbnjeh on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:48AM (#42430522)

I took advantage of that to generate Mandelbrot and Julia set graphics on one. It was fun as a coding exercise, but pretty slow processing.

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