On 2001-06-13 16:26, Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:57:32 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>>720x348, most home computers 320x200, and the Atari ST and Amiga (a
>>little later) 640x400. 
> 
> Actually, the Amiga had several resolutions,

Yep. I meant the maximum "normal" resolution. Other computers could also
trade resolution against color depth. 

> Later, someone (NewTek?) came up with a way to display 12-bit full-color
> images in 640x480 mode by doing some nasty stuff with the video coprocessor,
> but even that was limited to 16 colors per scanline.

Resetting color registers during horizontal retrace? I did that on the
Atari 800, too, and was very disappointed that it wasn't possible on the
PC.

	hp


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