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From: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Super Hi-Res
Message-ID: <22373@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 20:45:15 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.223859.15615@ariel.unm.edu>
Reply-To: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun11.223859.15615@ariel.unm.edu> saunders@triton.unm.edu (Richard Saunders CIRT) writes:
>Just out of curiousity ... Has anyone out there seen the new Super
>Hi-Res mode on a monitor that actually supports the 1200+ pixels
>across?  I have a 1950, and Super Hires on it displays every other
>pixel.  
>
>The reason I am wondering is that there don't seem to be all 4096
>colors in Super-Hi-Res mode on my 1950 ... If you try to change
>the color of, say, your background in the workbench using the
>pallete editor, there doesn't seem to be 4096 colors available
>for the background, more like 1000 or so ...
>
>So, is this just my ignorance and my monitor ;v) Or Does Super Hi-Res
>have some color restrictions?
>
>* saunders@triton.unm.edu * "This is _NOT_ Mel Torme!" - Top Secret

Super-Hires and Productivity modes both utilize the SHRES 35nS pixel
capabilities of ECS Denise. Both modes are limited to 4 colors selected
from a reduced 64 color palette.