Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!mintaka!dcw From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Mac Lc vs IIgs A+ Message-ID: <1991Feb7.190554.5431@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 7 Feb 91 19:05:54 GMT References: <9102040001.AA14006@apple.com> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group Lines: 26 In article <9102040001.AA14006@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: >On Sun, 3 Feb 91 16:18:14 GMT said: >>BTW, the LC does not have 15-bit colour, 8-bit colour is as good as it gets >>(unless there is a hidden video mode that I do know about), I understand that >>this was a last minute addition as well, they were only going to go with 4-bit >>colour on the 13" screen. > >Just to clarify this, and to be fair to the mac (like it deserves it!?:), >the LC's video RAM can be expanded (at a high price though) to allow it to >display up to 4,096 colors at once. Ah, the 15-bit color claim is wrong. It's 16-bit. With the appropriate VRAM expansion. Which is high priced. That gives you 65536 colors on screen at once no tricks or stunts - not 4k. Has anyone seens a picture displayed as such? Very nice, I must say. The LC comes with 8 bit video (256 colors at once no stunts). (I call the 3200 mode on the GS a stunt, as the programmer has to bend over backwards to get a static picture on screen. The LC, with 16-bit color can display 65536 different colors as easily as a GS can display 4 in 640 non-dithered mode.) -- Dave Whitney Computer Science MIT 1990 | I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug dcw@lcs.mit.edu dcw@mit.edu | reports. I have a job. Don't send me offers. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" --Binky (aka Matt Groening)