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Subject: Re: EGA for RGB?
Summary: Well, no
Message-ID: <1989Sep1.235056.18622@agate.uucp>
Date: 1 Sep 89 23:50:56 GMT
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In article <2740@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>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.
>

Well, I'm currently looking at a Samsung CGA monitor driven by a Video-7 VEGA
EGA card, and _I_ can get distinguishable 64 colors, 16 at a time, although
I can't get anything more than 640x200x16 resolution.  But I still want to
upgrade, because this looks downright yucky.

Scott