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Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sat, 20 Apr 2002 02:40:31 GMT
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foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu (J.D. Forinash) writes:
> William R Ward <bill@wards.net> wrote:
> > I've got a CGA card that's truly frightening - it's an 8-bit ISA card
> > that is full of 74xx chips. It takes up the entire maximum card size
> > of the AT case. You know how they always had those rails for holding
> > cards waaay over on the other end of the motherboard, but very few
> > cards were long enough to reach them? This one reaches them. I
> > actually used it for a while on a 386 when I was running a BBS. It
> > works great with monitors for the Commodore 128. But I thought tha
> > CGA was 16 color 320x200. You sure it was only 4-color?
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> Depends on the mode, actually. You could only do graphics in four
> colors, or text in eight, but the card knew how to display 16 total.
> You could do either the bright or not-so-bright eight text colors, or
> the graphics could be one of two four-color palettes (white, cyan, magenta,
> and black, or orange, green, yellow, and black).
I see. I was talking about text mode, you were talking about graphics
mode.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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