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From: moran@drivax.UUCP (Mike Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 256 color superVGA?
Message-ID: <9K1NDP1@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 90 21:15:39 GMT
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Organization: Digital Research Inc
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MXP122@psuvm.psu.edu (Malzor) writes:


>Is there any way to use the neat high resolution 256 color modes with
>superVGA cards with Windows?  Somewhere I was reading a passing reference
>to this as if it is possible.  Is it?


>Later.

Yes.  If you have a driver that supports the 256 color super VGA mode and
if you have applications that can make use of the larger color palette.
There are drivers for most super VGA cards that support their 256 color
modes (A 640x480x256 driver for Video 7 cards comes with windows).
Applications are another story.  Windows itself will only use the first 20
of those 256 color palette registers (all other colors are created by
dithering).  Applications have 236 color palettes available to them but only
if they are written to use them.  This should happen in the future as true
Windows 3.0 versions of products come out, rather than the simple recompile
and relink which many apps have done to get out the door quickly.

-- 
Michael A. Moran
Digital Research
70 Garden Court B15
Monterey, CA 93940