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- From: nv89-pla@hemul.nada.kth.se (Peter Laan)
- Subject: Re: Three AGA questions.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.214406.11978@kth.se>
- Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet)
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:44:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.093926.5786@tdb.uu.se> t92etr@tdb.uu.se (Erik Trulsson) writes:
- >Steve Koren (koren@fc.hp.com) wrote:
- >: Mattias Dahlberg (matt-dah@dsv.su.se) wrote:
- >:
- >: > since then 256000 will be the number of pixels. But shouldn't it
- >: > be 262144 on all higher resolutions...?
- >:
- >: What's a couple of thousand colors here or there? :-) But seriously, I
- >: think the correct value is 2^18+64. (Ie, there are 64 base registers
- >: you can set to whatever you want, and you can HAM your way to 2^18 more
- >: colors beyond those).
- >
- >Well,those 64 base registers are probably part of the 2^18 colors.
- >I think that the number 256000 comes from confusion with 256k (256*1024=262144).
- >
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- With HAM8 you could get 16M colors if you had enough pixels. Just choose
- the correct 64 base colors.
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- -Peter
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