From: "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller AT bluegrass DOT net>
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Subject: Re: dos quake compiling, help!! typos.. re-read
Date: 26 Aug 2002 09:57:37 GMT
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Excerpt from Necroscope <guln AT rogers DOT com>:

> Uhm... there is no 640x200 resolution.  Perhaps you mean 640x400?  I'm
> still not understanding this, though.  Sure, raising the resolution
> slow things down, but no matter what, it always tries to run at a
> steady and consistent rate.

Sure there is a 640 * 200 resolution: mode 6 (CGA, 2 colors) and mode 14
(EGA and VGA, 16 colors).  But EGA has 640 * 350 with 16 colors, and VGA has
640 * 480, so we rarely see 640 * 200.  Now this is largely superseded by
SVGA.