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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: EGA color palatte
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Date: 7 Jan 88 03:19:24 GMT
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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I am interested in getting a complete list of the 64 colors available
for the EGA compatible display cards.

This is what I have been able to get from some software that I use
[the manual doesn't give a list of colors] and what I have been able to
figure out.  I decimal number is used [0-63] for picking the color.
I have guessed the it goes:

	MSB  LSB
	 rgbRGB   where r=32, g=16, b=8, R=4, G=2 and B=1
		  and rgb are secondary pins and RGB are primary pins

Along the same line, does the RGB connector (IBM connector mode 1) always
have 4 pins, ie, RGB and I [intensity].  The other connection of the RGB
connector (IBM connector mode 2) has 6 pins used, hence the 64 possible
colors.  And we also have RGB Analog, which I call RGBA.  What I would
like to know is what exactly are all the various types of RGB pinouts
and what their names are.  We have RGB, RGBI and RGBA bantered around,
so what exactly is what?  Is the 4 pin RGB called RGBI and is the 6 pin
RGB just called RGB?

Here is the color table as I know it.  Could someone please fill in the
blanks, or correct same?

	 0  Black
	 1  dark blue
	 2  Dark Green
	 3  cyan
	 4  dark red
	 5  magenta
	 6  yellow
	 7  Gray
	 8  real dark red
	 9  real blue
	10
	11
	12
	13
	14
	15
	16  real dark green
	17
	18  real green
	19
	20
	21
	22
	23
	24  dark cyan
	25
	26
	27  Blue  (really Cyan?)
	28
	29
	30
	31
	32  real dark red
	33
	34
	35
	36  real red
	37
	38
	39  Pink
	40  real dark magenta
	41
	42
	43  Dark Blue
	44
	45  magenta
	46  Orange
	47  Lavender
	48  dark yellow
	49
	50
	51  Light Green
	52  Red
	53  Magenta
	54  Yellow
	55  Amber
	56  dark gray
	57  dark blue
	58  Green
	59
	60  dark red
	61
	62
	63  White

The colors with cap first letters are what was listed as the colors with
the software.  The colors in lower case only are what I have seen or
guessed at, based on the binary color combinations.

Thanks in advance.
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