Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!sysadmin
From: sysadmin@pnet91.cts.com (Matthew Montano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: resolution
Message-ID: <370@generic.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 91 00:22:50 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <266@generic.UUCP> ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy) writes:
>>VGA has a 320x 200 resolution (with 256 colours no less!).
>
>Wrong.  I just got through using a state-of-the-art PC/AT clone these past
>few weeks, and IBM VGA is around 640x480 (exact details fuzzy since I was
>using one of the "extended" VGA cards that supported up to 1024x860).
>
>The (standard) VGA version of King's Quest V, for example, has superior
>graphic images to any I've seen on the IIGS, and when you consider that

VGA actually has several different resolutions. VGA (this is my understanding)
will emulate MCGA, another IBM creation. MCGA is 320*200*256. Kings Quest V
will run in VGA OR MCGA (i.e. IBM Model 30's and 25's).

Standard VGA is 640*480.. Super VGA is 800*600..  or so it seems.

Matthew
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