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Article #8075

Paradise VGA 1024 - Why no 800x600x256??

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From: Ronald S Woan
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 14:03
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In article <13036@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu (MARK CHRISTOPHER LOWE) writes:
>I have seen 512K VGA boards that can do 800x600x256.  Yet, the Paradise
>VGA 1024 cannot?  So, what is the deal here?

None of the Paradise chipset based super VGAs support that mode... It
is not for lack of memory, just lack of forsight on the part of the
designers...


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Subject: Paradise VGA 1024 - Why no 800x600x256??
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