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Re: true color executor/D



In article <4e3p87$7us@uwm.edu>, ggraef@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Gerald Luther 
Graef) declares...
>
>Hello,
>
>As per a previous message, I'm trying to use executor to do 256-level
>grayscale nih-image.  Having realized that the 256-level needs 2-meg
>of video memory (ie. needs true color and I have only 1 meg on my Linux
>machine), I decided to try executor on a DOS box with 2 meg.  Alas,
>Executor says "maximum resolution 640x480 and 8 bpps" (or something
>similar).  How does one get E/D to do true color?  I have not yet
>purchased executor as I am unable to verify it can do what I need
>to do (possible limit for unregistered versions?) 

This situation doesn't make sense to me.  640x480x256 is 1Mb Vram, no matter 
what the colors are.  And grays are just some colors.  You need NIH to be 
able to change to a 256-gray pallette, right?  Can't it do that?  If I'm on a 
Mac w/256 colors max, and change to 256 grays, it does the same thing as if I 
just open a 256-gray bitmap in Photoshop.  Or at least its phenomenologically 
the same; maybe Mac palette control is strange.  But, again, I think all you 
need to do is rig a color pallette with the grays you need.  If this is 
wrong, I'd love to find out how such things actually do work, from anyone who 
knows better.

Executor can't do true color yet, no matter what your setup.  Wait for them 
to make money.

Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu



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