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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: new chips questions
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Date: 28 Aug 88 19:06:03 GMT
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In article <8X635hd38k-041lzFc@andrew.cmu.edu> bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes:
|Is it true that in the new graphic chips, the 400-line non-interlaced
|output will only be able to use colors from a total palette of 64?
|If so, is there a good reason? 

Yep. The ECS Enhanced Chip Set announced at DevCon in Wash provides a new
non-interlace mode: 640 x 400 (640 x 512 PAL), 4 colors from 64.
To use the ECS you'll need version 1.4 system software and a Bisynch or
Multisynch monitor.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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