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by snvzz 603 days ago
>Are you aware that no screen is 64k x 64k?

AmigaOS, I believe from 2.0 onwards, could do that[0].

Width and Height being 16bit attributes of the struct for the requested screen.

I haven't seen an actual monitor able to display the whole thing at once, but that's fine, because you can make your screen gigantic yet set the video output to a much lower resolution.

Intuition will let you scroll through it by moving the mouse pointer past the edge.

0. http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Includes_and_Autodo...

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Does this library serve Amiga developers?
If you mean intuition, it is one of the libraries included in the operating system (usually part of the kickstart ROM).

If you mean amigadev.elowar.com, it is indeed mostly referenced by Amiga developers.

libNSFB, the library being discussed and accused of being low quality because of this range assumption