Re: Falcon DOES have Super-VGA

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From: Ken Newman
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:49

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In article <11458@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
> Actually, the term "Super-VGA" is even less defined than "True Colour".
> All a graphics system need to claim "Super-VGA" is better than 640*480
> resolution.

As far as I'm aware, this is wrong. SuperVGA is anything better than
VGA. It does NOT mean just resolution. Original VGA maxed out at 
640x480x16 colours, and could not do 640x480x256 colours, while
SuperVGA can. Therefore 640x480x256 colours is indeed in the range
of SuperVGA by virtue of the number of simultaneous colours. There
are however also higher resolutions in SuperVGA as well, which to
my great disappointment the Falcon can't do. :(

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ken@isgtec.com   [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ]  Ken Newman

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From: ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman)
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Subject: Re: Falcon DOES have Super-VGA
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Date: 20 Dec 92 03:49:21 GMT
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