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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 640X480X256 on a VGA monitor with 512K card ???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.005354.26305@panix.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 00:53:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.185048.6940@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <1992Aug30.185048.6940@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890491g@dragon.acadiau.ca (Don Graves) writes:
- >
- > I was wondering about something:
- >
- >I have standard VGA (256K with a standard VGA color monitor). Is it possible
- >to have 640X480X256 using a SVGA 512K card on my standard VGA monitor?
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- yes.
-
- > I mean,
- >the monitor can do 640X480, but does the amount of simultaneously displayed
- >colors depend on the card alone, or is it also bound by the monitor? Any
- >comments?
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- The monitor can handle millions of colors since it's analog.
- If it does MCGA (320x200x256,) it'll do 256 colors in any resolution.
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