Re: Apple IIgs Gaming Questions

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

> This is an intended "feature" that allows all of the text and
> graphics screen to be visible on a TV used as a monitor.  TVs
> have relatively loose standards for the amount of "overscan"
> they employ, which causes information near the edges of the
> raster (all sides) to be outside the visible area of the screen.
>
> All professional TV productions use guidelines that position essential
> information well inside the edges of the raster for this reason.

After some comparisons with other old (and made for TV) hardware its
not as bad as I first thought.
I compared it with my PAL-Ataris (130XE and 400) and they at least had
a centered picture whereas the picture of the PAL IIe is shifted to the
top (or filled with black lines at the bottom).
The borders at the side were practically as wide as the ones of the
Apple, though.
Thankfully my TV is NTSC-capable and I have a NTSC-IIe-board, too.

Shows how much one is spoiled by the modern hardware, too ;-)

> Perhaps as we enter the world of digital HDTV the need for this
> will finally disappear.

Hopefully. Better framing, better picture quality, same frequencies -
one can hope...