Help- Is my monitor's resolution not high enough?

[Thunderrobot]

I am using an animation program called Mirage (or TV Paint), and when i re-size my workspace so that i can see more of the screen my line quality goes to hell. Every line looks so inconsistent, faint, and pixel-ly that i cant tell what I'm drawing. I cant tell if the program is doing this, or if my monitor just doesn't have a large enough resolution. I am using a 2001 Sony monitor with a 1,024 x 768 maximum resolution at 75 Hz.

My question (for someone with a good monitor) is, Does this look Pixel-ly to you?
http://bp0.blogger.com/_oF4NbpbzzjE/R5OVv_nU3qI/AAAAAAAAABU/YPjKDq5bYdw/s1600/Pixel-ly.bmp

If it doesnt i know its my monitor, and not the program.

Here is the same picture at full size (which looks fine on my monitor) for reference
http://bp1.blogger.com/_oF4NbpbzzjE/R5OWBPnU3rI/AAAAAAAAABc/5-vj9dv2zj8/s1600/Full-%2Bsize%2B(no%2BPixels).bmp

*i apologize for the compression.

[Elwell]

Different programs do a better or worse job of displaying when zoomed. Try more regular percentages (25, 50, 75%).

[Thunderrobot]

Since I'm only using a 15 inch monitor, 50% is way to small for me, and 75% looks about the same as the picture i posted.

[Elwell]

Well, you may want to upgrade from a seven year old 15" monitor for a whole lot of reasons.

[Thunderrobot]

Hahaha, yeah i guess so.

But the monitor does work fine-other than the resolution issue.