[comp.sys.amiga.graphics] Highest possible resolution of A500

johhog@cia.docs.uu.se (Johan H|gberg) (03/11/91)

As we all know, the Amiga offers many types of resolution.

I've been wondering how many pixels a screen can have.
 
Can there be more pixels in x-cordninate than in overscan?
I think I had a picture with 800 pixels in the x-cordinate.
Overscan in HIRES is 752, right?
It was a GIF-picture translated to HAM, INTERLACE, and HIRES that
was 800*600 pixels. To view this picture I used the program view, that
will give the possibility to scroll around the picture if it's to big
for the screen. In this case I could only scroll up and down, but not 
sideways.
To see the whole picture I had too scroll the screen with help of the
pins on the backside of the monitor (A1084).

The limitation for the y-cordinate seems to be 564 in interlace mode.