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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Pirating Hardware
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Date: 9 Feb 91 15:20:57 GMT
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From gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn):

>>A video card with 320x200x8-bit colour shouldn't be too difficult.
>
> But what would be the point?  You might as well stick to the stock IIGS
> for that.

    But you have to do some non-trivial CLUT manipulating to get 256 colours
onscreen.  You still only get 16 colours on a line, and that's the
restriction.  By extension, 320x200x8 would translate to 640x200x4 graphics
(memory-wise), and we could have 16 REAL colours in the Finder, AWGS, etc.
instead of the confusing dithered palette.  Of course, what would be really
nice is simply to allocate 2 bytes per pixel, and you could put all 4096
colours on-screen, anywhere you want, no restrictions, and you wouldn't have
to worry about palettes or SCB's.

Brian T. Tao  {taob@pnet91.cts.com} ||  Computer guru?  Someone who got
University of Metro Toronto         ||  their computer a couple of weeks
Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8         *B-) ||  before you did.  (Alvin Toffler)