Re: ANY way to do 24-bit graphics under OS/2 2.0?

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From: Rene Magritte
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:38

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Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery) writes:


>Is there ANY KNOWN METHOD of doing 24-bit graphics under OS/2 2.0?

>I'll even take suggestions about displaying in a DOS or Windows shell.

>Are there ANY MANUFACTURERS WHATSOEVER working on 24-bit drivers for OS/2?
>Any expected release times?

>Brandon Van Every

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	This is an important concern for me, also.  I'm happy to say
that OS/2 hasn't let me down in this area.  Any DOS program which
works with the Hicolor of my ET4000 works fine in an OS/2 fulls screen
DOS session.  Better still, I was able to install an old Windows
driver into Win/OS2 -- so while I'm in my OS/2 session, I am provided
the benifits of faster 256 color display, but where I need it
(painting programs under Windows), I am afforded a full 32000 color
palette!  Nice, huh?  The best of both worlds, I'd say.  Note that IBM
doesn't recommend this, but if it works, I'm not gonna argue! 

Rene

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