Subject: Re: 512x384 displays
To: Jude Giampaolo <jude@smellycat.com>
From: Emile Schwarz <emile.schwarz@wanadoo.fr>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/08/2000 17:56:41
But do not forget that you will have 16 colors (640 * 480) instead of 256 (512 *
384) except if you have 512 K of VRAM (then it is 256 colors instead of 32768).
Emile
Jude Giampaolo wrote:
>
> At 11:48 PM +0000 10/7/00, slumped@thekeyboard.com wrote:
>
> > TM> Essentially, it was a cheap way of fitting an 8-bit
> > > display in only 256k of vram.
> >
> >Worked too =o) Thinking about it though, with 256Kb of
> >display memory you could do 640 x 400 in 256 colours. It
> >might have added to the cost of the monitor though.
>
> That option was avaliable as well on the LC. You could drive 640x480x16 on
> a stock LC, but not with the 12" monitor from Apple. You needed the 13"
> model.
>
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> Jude Giampaolo
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