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From: chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Super Duper VGA boards
Summary: None yet (that I know of)
Message-ID: <10401@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 29 Nov 89 15:01:07 GMT
References: <8911250811.AA26716@cie.uoregon.edu>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <8911250811.AA26716@cie.uoregon.edu>, scott@CIE.UOREGON.EDU writes:
> I need to work with images with lots of color information and I'd like to have
> as much resolution as possible and remain standard. I see lots of Super VGA
> boards that handle 1024x768 with 16 colors and 800x600 with 256 colors. Are
> there any boards out there that can handle something like 1024x768 or 800x600
> with 16.8 million colors? It would be great if such boards could also handle
> the normal VGA modes too. Please tell me about any boards you know of like this
> or even close. The amount of color info is of most importance. Thanks.

The Tseng Labs ET4000 chip (going into full production early next year) will
support 65536 colors and is a VGA chip, so it will handle all the standard VGA
modes as well.  The 16-bit/pixel modes do require some external support
circuitry, however, so most boards designed with the ET4000 probably will not
be able to do it.  Some might -- check with the board makers that currently
use Tseng chips -- STB (we will probably not support it, sorry), Tecmar,
Orchid, Sigma Graphics, Genoa(?), and (I'm sure) several others.

>  Scott Settlemier  Univ. of Oregon  scott@cie.uoregon.edu  (503)-686-0808

Charles Marslett
BIOS guru -- STB Systems <-- apply all standard disclaimers
chasm@attctc.dallas.tx.us