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- From: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Why do the IBM BMPs look so awful?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.080833.3665@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 08:08:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.063736.7961@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Sender: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger)
- Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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- In article <1992Aug19.063736.7961@news.Hawaii.Edu>, ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) writes:
- > Out of curiority, I downloaded the bga?bmp.zip files from
- > software.watson.ibm.com to see if anything would make a decent background for
- > my 1024x768x256 screen. They look really awful, like some sort of bad
- > impressionist art (not that impressionism is intrinsically bad ...). At 3/4
- > Meg apiece, I would expect something photographic in quality. What's the deal?
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- They were obviously reduced to 16 colors with the color palette of the
- IBM 8514/A adapter, since they look not so bad on such a system. They
- are really ugly on a XGA system (I have 8514/A at home and XGA in the office,
- so I could compare). It therefore seems that even the first 16 colors in the
- palettes are different, which I'm pretty shure is a bug in one of the
- drivers.
- Regards, Martin Erzberger
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