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From: jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: TANDY GRAPHIC DRIVER
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.004325.23087@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 90 00:43:25 GMT
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In article <6351@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine) writes:
>In article <11535@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:
>>
>>    These two modes are not really Tandy mode in which DESKMATE was written.
>> In the third mode, you can get 640 x 200 x 16.
>>
>
>
>  I don't think so.  I have never in all my wanderings through Tandy 
>  documentation, including the Tandy 1000 TX reference, found mention of
>  a 640x200x16 color mode.  This would require some 64k of video memory,
>  and I'm fairly sure that 32k is the max used by a 1000.
>
>  Feel free to prove me wrong, but if such a mode exists, it is totally
>  undocumented.

640x200x16 isn't on all Tandy 1000s.  I think it's on the 1000 TL, but
really not sure what models.  Maybe all new machines?