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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EGA for RGB?
Message-ID: <2755@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 02:35:43 GMT
References: <1680@hydra.gatech.EDU . <2727@astroatc.UUCP . <9850@multimax.Encore.COM> <2740@astroatc.UUCP> <1989Sep1.235056.18622@agate.uucp>
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In article <1989Sep1.235056.18622@agate.uucp> c60c-4ab@e260-4c () writes:
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<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.

I don't know the monitor, but you can't get 64 colors with only 4 digital pins.
If you can, you might as well rewrite the math books.  Your monitor is EGA.
Your monitor has to be using 6 digital pins (RGBrgb).  Get out the manual for
the monitor had check the wiring of the RGB connector.
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