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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview and SVGA
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Date: 17 Feb 90 01:12:41 GMT
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In article <4437@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) writes:
|This could probably be remedied with a SuperVGA driver (GRFSVGA.DVR?).  Does
|anyone have one of these, or know the format for DV screen drivers?

But you must realize that there are few standards for modes beyond the
ones IBM created. VESA is trying to invent some but the existing product
out there will still all be different.

Someone said QD is thinking of releasing the format for the drivers.

|A question:  320x200x256 screens don't come out right on my display when
|running things under DV.  The resolution is right, and the picture is
|preserved, but it seems to be working with too few colors; many of them are
|mapped to black rather than the correct color.  This doesn't happen in SVGA
|modes...why is this?

When you say SVGA do you mean 16 or 256 color SVGA?

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