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- From: smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak)
- Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO 24-bit?
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:51:11 GMT
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- pfk@rz.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm) writes:
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- >In article <smithbm.720819736@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>, smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak) writes:
- >|> The ATI Graphics Ultra Pro with 2 Megs of VRAM will do the following
- >|> resolutions (I am only including a portion of what it can do for brievity):
- >|> 640x480x16.7M (True 24 bit color)
- >|> 800x600x16.7M (True 24 bit color)
- >|> 1024x768x65536 (Hi-color 16 bit) (No 24 bit color in this resolution)
- >|> 1280x1024x256 (8 bit color)
- >|>
- >|> Note that 1024x768x65536 uses 1.5 Megs of memory. Impossible to get 24 bit
- >|> color at this resolution due to memory limitations.
- >|> Note that 1280x1024x256 uses 1.3 Megs of memory. Impossible to get 16 bit
- >|> color at this resolution due to memory limitations.
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- >Why do this card not support 1152x900x64k and 960x720x16M ???
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- I don't actually have the card in front of me (It is at home, 320 miles from
- me at college), but I would imagine if you were to write some nasty assembly
- code, you could tweak the card into some "undocumented" resolutions like
- the two you mentioned above. I think I remember Fractint could switch the
- old ATI VGAWonder (Which USED to be in the PC at home) into some weird
- resolutions to gain a few hundred extra pixels for displaying fractals.
- Maybe the same type of things can be done to the new Graphics Ultra Pro.
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- For the PC, the two resolutions you mentioned are not standard resolutions.
- Are they SUN resolutions?
-
- >Frank
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- - Brian (smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu)
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