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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hi-res graphics ??
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Date: 13 Dec 89 23:54:17 GMT
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In <2370@tukki.jyu.fi>, pkivela@tukki.jyu.fi (P Kivela) writes:
>...  Since I bought the machine to do some precision colour illustrations,
>I expected to be able to use at least 16 (preferably more) colours with a 
>horizontal resolution of at least 640 pixels.  Unfortunately, I wasn't very
>familiar  with the details of Amiga's screen modes, so I was rather
>disappointed to find out that you can only use 8 colours in the high
>horizontal resolution.

The 640*200 and 640*400 mode will allow display of 16 colours.

-larry

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