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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Graphics on the STE - v. generally speaking...
Message-ID: <1039@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 91 19:22:19 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.004047.511@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Apr3.055519.2322@ns.network.com> <1991Apr3.223921.16258@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Apr4.004349.123@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
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korpela@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) writes:
>
>hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
>>
>>This is what
>>you get on a PC with VGA, 3 bits for one color, 3 bits for another,
>>and 2 bits for the last. I don't recall what the 2-bit color on VGA is.
>>At any rate, it covers the full spectrum; there are no color gaps or
>>missing or overemphasized colors in this scheme.
>>
>
>Are you sure this is how things are done on the VGA?  I though that
>VGA has a palette of 256 colors out of 32K total...
>

You are (wrong about this).  VGA simply has 6 bits per primary color, for
a total of (2^6)^3 = 262,144 colors, with 256 palette entries.  No tricks,
no horizontal-sync interrupts, none of that crazy stuff.  On a monochrome
monitor, you get 64 levels of gray.
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