From: pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard ) Subject: Re: 256 shades of gray on X and VGA? Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:43:01 GMT
lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>Are there any VGA cards supported by freex86 that will allow you to
>get 256 rather than 64 shades of gray in 1024X768, or even 7800X600
If you can accept some slight coloration, you can get 256 near gray
shades from VGA with any VGA or SVGA board. You just have to have
a different palette of colors.
>? The normal VG pallet registers are only 6 bits.
...per color... that is the key. They are really 18 bits because of 3
colors. Use the standard color to monochrome conversions to find some
off white psuedo grays to use.
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