General VGA question

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From: Christopher Georges
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 04:08

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Is the VGA architecture limited to 256 on-screen colors, or is there
some way you can get into a non-color mapped mode and display colors
at 18 bits per pixel or however many the VGA uses?  There seems
to be enough memory to do it at low resolutions, at least.

chris

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