24 May
2007
24 May
'07
12:16 p.m.
--- ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Yes, but most of the 'IBM incompatibles' had 1
bit per pixel, just
on/off
monochrome grpahics. The 'Bow had a CLUT and up to
4 bits per pixel I
think.
The Rainbow could do 4 colors from a pallette of 4096 in hi-res (800x240)
and 16 from a pallette of 4096 in low-res (384x240). The fact that the
pallette was not fixed was a major selling point with some because, in
low-res, properly dithered photographic pictures would look far better
than on the fixed-pallete IBM PC modes (CGA, EGA).
What's a CLUT, by the way? Not familiar with that acronym...
-Jeff Armstrong
jba at sdf.lonestar.org
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