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From: dre@sequoia.cray.com (Dennis Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: > 256 colors on some SVGA's (was: 64K colors?)
Message-ID: <084714.3118@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 8 May 91 17:09:47 GMT
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In article <1991May8.121157.86679@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> daf@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>Hi all,
>
>There has been some recent discussion about the ability to display more than
>256 colours on some SVGA boards.  This is news to me (great news!).
>
>Does anyone have some code they would be willing to share with us all and a
>list of boards that can support more than the standard number of colours.  Any
>detailed info on exactly how this is done would be useful too.
>

  No software, but here are a few boards (off the top of my head):

    Cardinal Tech.            VGA732     640x480x15 (32K colors)
    National Design  $2995    AT1100     1204x768x24
    Everex           $ 339    Viewpoint  640x480x15
    Exerex           $ 795      ?        640x480x24 to 1280x1024x8

  The last one is the one I am considering most. It has VGA passthru and
Windows3 drivers (along with Autocad and some others). Appears to be a
good compromise between low-cost VGA res and high-cost 24-bit TARGA.

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