Re: ATI Ultra PRO 24-bit?

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From: Frank Klemm
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 16:18

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In article <smithbm.721061471@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>, smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak) writes:
|> pfk@rz.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm) writes:
|> 
|> >Why do this card not support 1152x900x64k and 960x720x16M ???
|> 
|> I don't actually have the card in front of me (It is at home, 320 miles from
|> me at college), but I would imagine if you were to write some nasty assembly
|> code, you could tweak the card into some "undocumented" resolutions like
|> the two you mentioned above. I think I remember Fractint could switch the
|> old ATI VGAWonder (Which USED to be in the PC at home) into some weird
|> resolutions to gain a few hundred extra pixels for displaying fractals.
|> Maybe the same type of things can be done to the new Graphics Ultra Pro.
|> 
|> For the PC, the two resolutions you mentioned are not standard resolutions.
|> Are they SUN resolutions?
|> 
First is sun resolution (1152x900), second is a nearly 1024x768 mode because 1024x768
is only a little bit too big to fit into 2MB, but it is much larger than 800x600 (x1.44).

Frank

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From: pfk@rz.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO 24-bit?
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