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Re: only 16 colors with S3 trio 64+
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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:25:22 -0800
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On 22 Mar 99, at 15:08, Earl Truss wrote:

> Colors                        Number of bytes
> 16                               1

  .5, actually.  A vanilla VGA can do 16 colours at 640x480 resolution
with only 256KB of installed video RAM (and some really gross interface
programming, which is why you want the driver to take care of the
details), and everybody emulates this as a "lowest common denominator".

David G

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