Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site inuxg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxg!aaron From: aaron@inuxg.UUCP (Jeffrey Walters) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: New color card: 256 colors on a PC! Message-ID: <407@inuxg.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 14:56:38 EDT Article-I.D.: inuxg.407 Posted: Sat Sep 28 14:56:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 08:31:21 EDT References: <7700013@prism.UUCP> <372@bbncc5.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis Lines: 31 > > Hmmm... 256 out of 32K colors on a standard PC color display? Sounds > > interesting. I wonder if they're working on a higher resolution version > > that would run on the EGS (256 by 350 pixels, perhaps?) > > No, on a color composite video monitor or analog RGB display. It's > impossible to display more than 16 colors on an IBM-CGA-compatible > monitor or 64 colors on an Enhanced Color Display: the RGB signals > are digital, not analog, and there are only 4 separate inputs > (or 6, for the ECD). > -- > /Steve Dyer > {harvard,seismo}!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer > sdyer@bbncc5.ARPA WRONG Steve: The new graphics card from AT&T's Electronic Photography and Imaging Center (EPICenter) does display 256 colors (from 32K - color map) on the standard digital RGB PC color display. If anyone would like more information on the products offered by EPICenter please mail your name, address (US Mail) and phone number to ...ihnp4!inuxa!inuxg!epic. Jeffrey A. Walters Operations Manager EPICenter Please do not send mail to me for information requests but send to the above address (...ihnp4!inuxa!inuxg!epic).