2560x1200 WB

[Rob]

Not really. It simply depends on the monitor driver you're using.

I remember when I first got OS4 back in 2004.  I'd had the A1 for about a year and was using a 14" Acer monitor I'd borrowed from my brother.  Linux had restricted me to a max of 800x600 so when I got play with P96 I decided to try and push out the max resolution of 2048x1536 just for fun.  Amazingly it worked, it was as flickery as hell and totally unusable due to the small size of everything on that tiny 14" screen.

I think I settled for for 1024x768* proudly telling myself that Amiga was way better than Linux.

Now I use a 24" LCD at 1920x1200 and can't really imagine going back to tiny screens with low resolutions for Workbench use.

*maybe even 1280x1024, I know that I was able to get a stable image at higher resolutions than the Debian installer had made available to me.

[Rob]

Under AOS that simply depends on the drivers. AOS3.x supports Workbenches up to 16384x16384 pixels in size (perhaps 2.x as well). Under Linux it may simply have been a driver issue, where the desktop was restricted to what the driver could display.

I think Linux was limited by what the monitor was telling the Linux driver it could handle.  I'm sure I was able able to get 1600x1200 out of my 17" Viewsonic when I plugged that in.  The Viewsonic stayed at my parents house where it was used with my A1200 and I eventually got a 19" TFT to use with the A1.

I imagine that it's probably possible to manually configure the display driver in Linux but I didn't know much about Linux and didn't care to learn.