Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II and VGA  (icky-poo, IBM stuff)
Keywords: Zenith FTM Mac II Board RasterOps
Message-ID: <492@biar.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 89 02:25:20 GMT
References: <1531@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <8264@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <8264@chinet.chi.il.us> henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Henry C. Schmitt) writes:
>Anyway RasterOps makes a board which does what you want with two
>caveats: it will only run in 1-bit or 8-bit modes (2 or 256 colors),
>why they didn't implement 2 and 4-bit modes I don't know.

Gee, off the top of my head, I can think of one very good reason.  The
reason they didn't implement it is because nobody uses 2 or 4 bit
modes.  I for one have yet to see an application that uses 2 or 4 bit
graphics, and I doubt there is any good reason for such an App to be
written, especially in a multiprogram environment (where you need
extra colors so each App can have it's own palette).

IMHO the 2 and 4 bit Color Quickdraw modes were a waste of time.

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