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Subject: Re: dos quake compiling, help!! typos.. re-read
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On 26 Aug 2002 09:57:37 GMT, "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller AT bluegrass DOT net>
wrote:

>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  Now this is largely superseded by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.

My bad, then. :(

Does 640x200 function similar to 320x200?  That is, it's a
scanline-doubled mode?

-- 
Andrew Jones