Re: Re(2): Apple ][gs VGA Card

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu (John L. Graham) writes:

>Stupid question (the best kind). Does this mean I can have 256 colors _per
>line_. Also, can I get 256 shades of gray, or is it 16 palettes of 16 shades
>each. One application I have for the card is displaying data from an 8-bit
>CCD array, hince the interest in 256 shades of gray.

  Each pixel can be any of 256 colors in a palette. I.e., there is a table
that is 256 entries long. Each entry defines one of 16 million colors.
Each pixel can point to one of those colors.
  So, yes, you can have 256-shade grayscale, or redscale, or
photo-quality images.

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