Card Size

[Klaus Major]

Hi James,

> I would like to hear the advice of members of this list on what the
> preferred card size is for viewing on screen.  I have been using 640 x
> 480 as the standard but this seems to waste a lot of real estate on the
> monitor.  I would like to move to a larger size but does this mean 
> that I
> will be eliminating many potential users of the stacks that I develop?
> Any assistance with this problem would be appreciated.
>
> Jim Wall

we decided to have 1024*768 as our min. system-requirement.

We are living in 2002 !
You can buy 2 Ghz CPU's and a 23" monitor (if the money is available ;-),
so one really has to draw a line somewhere.

And if someone's idea of "multimedia" is a 486 (or Mac LC etc...) with
32 MB RAM and maybe a 8 bit, 14" monitor, well, ehmm, sorry ma'am...

5 years ago we de3cided to make 800*600 our min. sys-req.

But the times they are a changing, and so must standards/sys-req.

Compatibility is a fine thing.
But only to a certain degree !!!

C'mon, the "slowest" pc ypu can get nowadays starts at 800 Mhz...

Even if we might loose some customers, we decided to make this strict 
sys-req.


BUT if you are developing mostly for schools etc... you really might 
have to support
smaller screen-sizes, since schools do not have the most up-to-date 
hardware,
if at all...


Regards


Klaus Major
kmajor at metascape.org