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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
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Subject: Re: Intuition and color (was Re: ColorBurst NTSC @ LA VideoExpo)
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Date: 29 May 91 05:15:35 GMT
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In article <1991May28.003206.21596@leland.Stanford.EDU>, bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>In article <1991May27.221214.19100@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>
>>	I hate to put this so bluntly, but without externally
>>hardware, Intuition can't DO VGA graphics. Period. Try getting
>>256 simultaneous colors without using HAM, which cannot be used
>>for the WB screen anyway.
>
>Well, whatever.  I hate to be blunt with YOU, Ethan, but you should know
>better.  I'm running a 4096-color workbench as we speak.  Now, it's only
>sixty columns, but it's there, and it's rather pretty, thankyouverymuch.

   You are probably using HamBench, which gives you a 320x200 or 320x400
HAM-mode WorkBench.  Workbench in this modes does look pretty good, but
you have to construct your own icons because the aspect ratio for the
320x400 mode is totally the opposite of the normal Workbench mode 
(640x200), and because there are few ready-to-use HAM-mode icons 
available except the ones included with HamBench.

   I find it better to simply use the 640x400 16-color mode, because
you get a higher resolution in this mode, with none of the fringing 
associated with HAM mode.  

>
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