Re: [hatari-users] Pixel tripling / quadrupling

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 29/01/2025 à 13:57, Gareth Morris a écrit :
> Thank you for the reply Nicolas.
>
> Yes I tried with the command line last night, this exact command, and it was definitely using some kind of smoothing and the result was blurry.
>
> I am using MacOS. I asked a two other users about this and they confirmed my findings.

that's strange, under Linux I don't get blurry pixels, even at  high 
zooming factor.

Maybe there're some SDL 2 options to change this under macOS ?

Let's see if some other users have any idea on this.

Nicolas


> > On 29 Jan 2025, at 13:37, Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Le 29/01/2025 à 13:28, Gareth Morris a écrit :
> > > Hello Hatari,
> > > I am using the latest build of Hatari on my Apple. I tried the zoom command line option to try to get a sharp picture with pixel tripling or even quadrupling like the old Steem used to do (my eyes are not what they were).
> > > Unfortunately anything above the default pixel doubling comes out blurry, even when setting higher max-height and max-width
> > > Any idea what I might be doing wrong, or if 3x / 4x is even possible?
> > > Thank you for your time,
> > > Gareth / gwEm
> >
> > Hi gwEn !
> >
> > there's no such option in Hatari's UI, but if you run it from command line (windows or macOS ?) you can use the "--zoom" option to get the expected result.
> >
> > for example, run
> >
> > hatari --zoom 3
> >
> >  From what I see (also with aging eyes :) ) the result is not blurry.
> >
> > Nicolas