From: Hartmut Schirmer <hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Can I use 256 grayscale colors?
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:55:28 +0200
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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
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