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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Duped!!
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Date: 12 Oct 90 14:36:02 GMT
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In article <90284.232257JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
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-(alternate title might be "Damn am I glad I own an Amiga!!"  :-)
-What I got was a lecture about how VGA only does 16 colors in 640x480
-and you have to drop to 320x200 (or whatever) to get 256 colors.  This
-is something I told them I thought was a cheap shot by all the folks
-hyping VGA and its wonderful palette.  They let me know pretty
-quickly that I had been duped, just like a lot of other consumers.

Not to spoil anything, but I think that most Super VGA controllers with more
than 256 kb memory can have 256 colours in higher resolution than 320x200.
They either get rather slow or rather expensive (graphics processor), though.
BTW, Super VGA is not a standard (more like 367 standards). They seem to
agree on 800x600 resolution, but You need different drivers for combinations
of board and program You want to run. (No device-independent graphics lib
a'la Mac!)

Tommy Petersson