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From: alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Duped!!
Message-ID: <1102@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 90 22:20:23 GMT
References: <90284.232257JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Oct12.143602.8771@ericsson.se>
Reply-To: alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich)
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In article <1990Oct12.143602.8771@ericsson.se> etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se writes:
>-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

>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.

That's correct.  If you have a 512K super-VGA card, you get the following
modes:

1024x768  2, 4, and 16 color
800x600   16 color
640x400   256 color
640x480   256 color

These in addition to the standard VGA modes, plus the lesser EGA and CGA
modes.

(I just bought and IBM-compatible with super-VGA for some consulting work.
MS-DOS is terrible.  I still prefer writing software on my Amiga.)

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