@brion @polychrome This exactly - VGA (and VGA monitors) created the blocky look.
Fwiw, I remember actually preferring the blocky VGA graphics over the non-blocky low-res output on my Amiga on a multiscan monitor at the time, because I found seeing the space between scanlines more distracting / ugly than the big chunky pixels.
Fwiw, I remember actually preferring the blocky VGA graphics over the non-blocky low-res output on my Amiga on a multiscan monitor at the time, because I found seeing the space between scanlines more distracting / ugly than the big chunky pixels.