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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: resolution
Message-ID: <946@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 91 15:48:42 GMT
References: <266@generic.UUCP> <14771@smoke.brl.mil>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <14771@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) 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).
>

Obviously, VGA supports many resolutions.  In standard VGA, the only new
modes (over EGA) are 640x480x16, and 320x200x256 (and maybe a few new text
modes).  The big difference is that the color selection is 256K colors, 
instead of the 64 that EGA provided.  Extended VGA cards (pretty much every
card you can buy today) support 800x600 in 16 and 256 colors, and the newest
ones support 1024x768x256.

>
>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
>Sierra's animation (as opposed to background scenery) resolution is kept
>down to EGA levels even in their VGA games, the difference was even more
>striking.
>

Yep, KQ5 has absolutely superior graphics.  There's something DIFFERENT
about the images.  I think that instead of using a paint program, the
artists actually painted the images, and the results were digitized into
the game.  Stunning.
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