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- From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Weird monitor question
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:06:17 GMT
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- Okay. I have some VRAM, and it supports my 14" Mac LC color monitor
- at 8-bit. With me so far? Now - Let's say I have a QuickTime movie,
- which is 120 X 160 pixels. If, for the sake of the discussion, there
- was such a thing as a monitor that was only 120 X 160, wouldn't the
- VRAM I have be able to support that at 24-bit? Why not? If so, then
- wouldn't there be a way to block out part of my current monitor and
- use the remaining part at a higher pixel depth? I keep thinking about
- those little hand-held game systems that have 16-bit graphics. The
- reason they don't look too great is because they have a low resolution.
- So what's wrong with a tiny monitor with a better resolution on a mac
- being supported at 24-bit? Is it possible? I know nobody would ever
- do such a thing, but wouldn't it work? TIA.
-
- -Scott J. Kleper
- "Sgt. KLeper"
-