Chromiums on 1/26/01 12:07 PM wrote:
> --- "Scolman,Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Good morning, I am setting up a 2300c with OS 8.1.
>> The issue is the video,
>> objects on the screen look flat, without all of the
>> roundness, detail, and
>> full beauty we know is the Mac OS. If I choose
>> "Thousands of colors" in the
>> Monitor Control Panel, the appearence looks correct,
>> but the image is small,
>> if I choose 256 colors, the image fills the screen
>> but is "flat" looking.
>> Please tell me this is a software, driver issue, NOT
>> hardware, ie., the
>> screen is bad or going. Thanks......JWS.
>>
> Jim, unfortunately that's how all the duos are. I
> think they only have enough ram for 8-bit color at
> 640x480. If you go to 16-bit (thousands), you only get
> 640x320 (i believe). That's the nature of the beast,
> and I don't think there's a video upgrade for it (I
> maybe mistaken).
> They've fixed this quirk on the 2400c.
>
> Lam
>
That sounds right. If you could adjust the contrast it might help things to
not appear as flat as you say. I don't recall if you can on the 2300 though.
BTW Chromiums, your close on the thousands size, but it's actually 640x400.
-makmac
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