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From: davew@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Dave_Waller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple 8-24 GC Card
Message-ID: <6830002@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 3 May 90 22:26:49 GMT
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Is the 8-24 GC the same thing as the "8-bit color video" card? I just
bought a IIcx with and 8-bit card and a 13" monitor. It is clearly
capable of 24-bit color (you know, 8 bits of red, 8 green, and 8 blue),
and also clearly seem to be using 8 bits per pixel to index a color map
where the translation to 24 -bits is made (I say all this just by doing
some observations with GIF files and a program called Image).

Now, am I totally insane about what I think my conclusions are about my
video card, or is it 24-bit color? You know, the standard marketing BS:
"A pallette of 16.7 million colors, with 256 of them available
simultaneously on the screen at a time!" (translation: colormap is 24
bits deep, with 256 entries; a pixel byte indexes into this table to get
the pixel color).

Is this the 8-24 card, or is it something different?

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