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Re: True colour to high colour in one fowl swoop?

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From: Derek Morton
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 00:00
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And if you set them to hi color mode what happens?

That what the original poster asked.


On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:24:00 +1000, marimus <marimus@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>Derek Morton wrote:
>> 
>> Josh
>> 
>> This is usually hardware dependent.
>> Get hold of quickres from the m$ powertoys and see what it does.
>> 
>I don't beleive you.
>
>Just to check, I tried the following cards in my Windows box....
>
>Tseng Labs ET4000 ISA
>Trident TVGA ISA
>S3 Trio32 1MB
>S3 Trio64 2MB
>S3 Virge/dx
>Diamond Stealth II
>
>And switched all cards between 8 and 256 colours (the highest colour
>depth common to all cards) and all worked fine.
>
>Mabey I have the rare combo of old cards that all can do it, I don't
>know.
>
>l8r, Marimus
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