Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!vtserf!morpheus!frank From: frank@morpheus.UUCP (Frank McPherson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: So, does *anyone* make 1024x768 x256 for the A3000? Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 91 11:08:05 GMT References: <15250@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr24.211729.19270@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Apr25.192819.20350@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Lines: 17 In article <1991Apr25.192819.20350@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > That's 24 BIT planes, not 24 BYTE planes. 640x400 with 24 >bit planes is 750K, or 640 * 400 * 3. 24 bits is 3 bytes. > >>"24 bit graphics" does not imply 24 bit planes. I'm sure someone will >>correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that with normal 24 bit graphics >>boards, they allow you to choose 256 colours (8 bitplanes) from a >>palatte of 16 million (approx. 2^24). >> -- Yes, thank you, I seem to have been quite a bit brain dead yesterday, and forgot to divide the number of bits by the size of a byte. Oooops. I think I'm embarrassed. -- Frank McPherson INTERNET : emcphers@fox.cs.vt.edu -- -- AmigaUUCP : uunet!vtserf!morpheus!frank --