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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Duped!!
Message-ID: <1321@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 19 Oct 90 18:19:14 GMT
References: <90284.232257JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Oct12.143602.8771@ericsson.se> <1102@bilver.UUCP>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <1102@bilver.UUCP> alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich) writes:
>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

Nevertheless, there's little software support for Super-VGA modes. Most
programs can use 16 color (at 640x480) only. You won't even get drivers
for these modes (like for Turbo-C or other development packages) since
the cards use different methods for entering the "Super"-modes.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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