Copying files to ISO

See the other thread. 7 inch 1024×600 display for thirty euros.

800×480 was a very common screensize on the early (Android 1/2) era smartphones, so there are a lot of panels floating around looking for somebody clueless enough to pay good money for them.

Absolute baseline you should be looking at is 1024×600 and even that’s decade-old tech (but it ought to be fairly inexpensive).

is horribly tiny from my point of view.

Yes, my 7" is really tiny. But if it’s not being used as the primary device, but is only there so you can see something on the screen, it’s okay. Maybe it helps to be short sighted? ;-)

Maybe it helps to be short sighted? ;-)

Possibly. My near point is somewhere up the far end of the street…I wear +1.5 dioptre lenses to look at my screen ~65cm from my nose. My accommodation is good enough that I can still focus on the edges of the screen, which are about ~85cm away…

Looking at a few quick options shows typical 18.5" to 22" panels at £60 – £80 with 1366 × 768 the lowest resolution on offer.

I’ve got vision limitations so a 14" display is stretching the lower limit for me.¹
That’s unaided vision at ~65 cm and just at the limit when ~85 cm (this fixed focal length stuff is a niggle, but since the vision in my left eye is roughly equivalent to looking through a sheet of San Izal bog paper I think the right eye will do just fine as it is (can I have the left “upgraded”?) I’ll go and get glasses for the extremes in due course.

I was short-sighted before and even then I never liked small screens so winding down to a 7" screen seems like madness, especially when the price difference seems to be roughly 2:1 but the resolution is ~same or better on the larger panels

¹ A prolonged period on a 14" display means tired, aching eyes

I encounter it about 4 to 7 times per week. If the code has lines longer than 70 chars and you are using NetSurf at a screen resolution suffeciently low, you would as well.

And because code sections are a problem (for you, who insists on using the most unergonomic setup to browse the web that can be imagined), you are formatting your normal text to the same standard, gaining nothing, but making your text harder to read for nearly everybody else?

Doesn’t make much sense I think.

Bringing this back on topic: Jon has reported success when using CDVDBurn 3 to create the ISO image.

And that means my one year old monitor does not exist? (800×480 native res).

It just means that it makes no sense to optimize for the lowest common denominator. Or someone will suddenly pop up and pretend that she uses a 32×4 7 segment display.

Well for those of us with the eyesight and the desire to save every possible mW of electricity, the 7 and 5 inch LED backlight LCD displays look very good.

Excessive. Use an E-Ink aka ePaper display, this only takes power when changing the screen content. Or, if you insist on colour, an OLED display which does not need the power-hungry backlighting.

Jon has reported success when using CDVDBurn 3 to create the ISO image.

You beat me to it…

I’d just like to say a public thank-you to Steffen for donating a copy to JASPP. I’ve now created the ISO, tracked down the bug I needed it for and have SF3000 TNG running natively on the Pi3…just need to get Nathan to reply to my email next so I can see about releasing it!

Or someone will suddenly pop up and pretend that she uses a 32×4 7 segment display.

Actually, since you mention it, one of my test programs for my OLED was to periodically take a snapshot of the screen, fudge it to be monochrome, then send it to my OLED.

Here you go. Extreme browsing:

SF3000 TNG… YES!