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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: new chips questions
Message-ID: <620@sas.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 16:02:52 GMT
References: <8X635hd38k-041lzFc@andrew.cmu.edu> <614@sas.UUCP> <5308@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <5308@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David Ashley) writes:
>>>output will only be able to use colors from a total palette of 64?
>
>You have missed the point. Fine, there are only two bitplanes in this new
>higher-resolution mode. The original problem was, WHY ONLY 64 COLORS?

Touche, I did miss your point.  John Toebes came up with a guess as to why.
The new mode requires an EGA or MultiSync monitor;  perhaps it puts out
digital RGB instead of analog, and the 64-color limitation is in the monitor?