Re: VGA 320x240@256 -P?

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:11

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mbfarah@isluga (Miguel Braxton Farah)
>Hi! Is it true that there is a VGA (extended-non documented or whatever)
>320x240@256 mode?. How can I access it - if it exists? I'm trying to write 
>a GIF viewer of my own and this mode would be very useful for avoiding the
>infamous distortion when one sees 640x480 images in 320x200.


Is true..refer to DDJ articles by Michael Abrash for one source. This
mode is one of several that are called mode-x and mode-y vga modes.
There is an xlib02.zip library on wuarchives in MSDOS_UPLOADS that
should help.

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