TV Tuner in reverse?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 03:40:10PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Those old modulator had very poor resolution, as the signal had to fit  
> into a standard NTSC channel.  The computers that used them typically  
> got 32 - 40 characters/line max and 16 lines.

vic20 had 22x23 character.  The C64 was 40x25.  I don't think any of
those did 80x25 on NTSC.

The Amiga could, but it looked awful and was practically unreadable
on NTSC.  You needed RGB rather than RF to get 80x25 in a readable form.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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