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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon DOES have Super-VGA
- Message-ID: <11509@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:07:16 GMT
- References: <1go3m9INN55a@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <11458@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <3899@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
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- ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) writes:
- >warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
- >> Actually, the term "Super-VGA" is even less defined than "True Colour".
- >> All a graphics system needs to claim "Super-VGA" is better than 640*480
- >> resolution.
-
- >As far as I'm aware, this is wrong. SuperVGA is anything better than
- >VGA. It does NOT mean just resolution.
-
- Yes, my statement was logically incorrect. I meant "any graphics system
- with better than 640*480 resolution can claim "Super-VGA".
-
- >Original VGA maxed out at
- >640x480x16 colours, and could not do 640x480x256 colours, while
- >SuperVGA can.
-
- >Therefore 640x480x256 colours is indeed in the range
- >of SuperVGA by virtue of the number of simultaneous colours. There
- >are however also higher resolutions in SuperVGA as well...
-
- SOME Super-VGA. And SOME monitors.
-
- From my limited experience, PC games don't use Super-VGA anyway.
- Some "Applications" programs do however.
-
- But hey, we've been forgetting that the Falcon has another graphics
- mode - the 32768 colour mode, with overlay bit - allowing video
- titling. Can't do that with your average Super-VGA.
-
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- Warwick
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