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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Question about LC monitors and VRAM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.230826.20886@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 23:08:26 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1icfhjINN9ju@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
- Keywords: LC, VRAM, monitor, Mac
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- In article <1icfhjINN9ju@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) writes:
- >Since the original Mac LC has only 256k of VRAM it cannot display 8bit
- >color on the 13" (or 14") Apple Monitor.
- >My question is:
- >Is there any software method which simulates a 12" color monitor on a 13"
- >one (e.g. by using a smaller visible area) in order to run programs
- >that require 8bit color?
-
- No, it's not possible with the Apple monitor. It is possible if you
- use hardware (a different cable) and a multisync monitor, but that's
- overkill for the LC. Your best bet is to buy the 512K RAM.
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- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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