• Stampy@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    To be fair, not far from your average crt monitor in 1998, maybe 640 x 480.

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      1 hour ago

      800x600 was perfectly fine on my (family computer) 1997* era ATi Rage Pro 8MB AGP (funnily enough, it was slightly slower than the PCI version) card for Half Life 1. 1024x768 too but less FPS. Quake 3 Arena ran better.

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      3 hours ago

      It’s four times smaller, though, so enough to make a significant difference

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      6 hours ago

      What?! Was I so privileged to have a 720p CRT at the time? (ok well not literally 720p, but a higher resolution 4:3… 800x600)

      … actually remembering it, it was probably well after 1998, but I have plenty of memories going, “mmmm, 800x600”. maybe even more at 1024x768.

      I only really started to understand what it all meant and how neat better resolution was with Unreal Tournament, so… definitely post 1999