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- From: claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: 256 color WB
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 03:48:05 GMT
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- Richard Lavey (richard@startide.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : Intuition (The AmigaOS GUI system) can only handle up to 256 colours, so
- : the maximum number of colours a normal WB screen can have is 256.
-
- : CyberGraphX, the RTG software that comes with the CV64, provides an
- : extension to Intuition that allows the creation of 15, 16 and 24 bit
- : screens for programs to use, including workbench.
-
- : In short, a CV64 can open a 24bit deep WB Screen.
-
- You may not know it, but you've almost sold me a CyberVision card. :-)
- What I'm curious about now is, does it have the Picasso's Denise/Lisa
- chip software controlled fallback relay, and also, does it have any
- equivalent to the Picasso's screenmode promotion commodity?
-
- (I'm happy with my Picasso, but for a 24-bit deep Workbench screen that
- actually doesn't cause software conflicts, with a fallback relay and
- an automatic mode promotion commodity, I think I might be convinced
- to move up to Zorro-III 64-bit speed...) :-)
-
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