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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EGA for RGB?
Message-ID: <2740@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 14:50:33 GMT
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In article <9850@multimax.Encore.COM> corbin@maxzilla.UUCP () writes:
<In article <2727@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
< >Even if someone made a TSR that grabbed EGA calls and converted the calls
< >and data into CGA, the display will still look like CGA.  It may actually
< >be worse, since CGA only handles something like 4 colors at a time, the
< >EGA pallette can't be efficently converted.
<
<The 4 color limit is a function of the CGA adapter, not the monitor.
<The ATI card will allow the full range of 64 EGA colors on an RGB monitor
<(only 16 at a time of course).

Yes and no.  Yes the 4 color limit is built in the CGA display description.
No because the pallette for the CGA is only 16 colors, not the EGA 64.  Why,
because CGA RGB monitors are RGBI, while EGA monitors are RGBrgb.  It will
be virtually impossible to display the 64 color EGA pallette on a monitor
that can physically only handle 16 colors.

I still maintain to get FULL EGA functions will require an EGA card and an
EGA monitor.  Doing anything less and you will be cheating yourself.
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