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- From: pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard )
- Subject: Re: 256 shades of gray on X and VGA?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.044301.11614@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec13.190536.2983@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:43:01 GMT
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- lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
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- >Are there any VGA cards supported by freex86 that will allow you to
- >get 256 rather than 64 shades of gray in 1024X768, or even 7800X600
-
- If you can accept some slight coloration, you can get 256 near gray
- shades from VGA with any VGA or SVGA board. You just have to have
- a different palette of colors.
-
- >? The normal VG pallet registers are only 6 bits.
-
- ...per color... that is the key. They are really 18 bits because of 3
- colors. Use the standard color to monochrome conversions to find some
- off white psuedo grays to use.
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