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From: | Hartmut Schirmer <hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT de> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Can I use 256 grayscale colors? |
Date: | Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:55:28 +0200 |
Organization: | Technische Fakultaet, University of Kiel, Germany |
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Paul Szuch wrote: > VGA limits you to 6bits/color so you can't get more than 2^6=64 shades > of gray with VGA. If you want more you'll have to go to true-color > which allows 8bits/color=24bits/pixel. Allegro is on the virge of > allowing these modes as I recall. GRX20 only allows > high-color(5-6bits/color) so I'm not sure about accessing a true-color > mode. In any event it is very difficult to visually tell the > difference between 64 levels of gray anyway. Some cards have 8bit dacs. With VESA 2.0 there is a programming interface to access these features. Hartmut -- Hartmut Schirmer | Phone: +49-431-77572-709 FAX:-703 Automatisierungs- & Regelungstech. | hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT de Technische Fakult"at, | http://www.techfak.uni-kiel.de/~hsc Kaiserstr. 2, 24143 Kiel, Germany | PGP key via WWW, Key ID:6D84AEC1
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