Given enough coding time, slow enough horiz refresh, and
incredibly fast IO, i could get more than 16 colours a scanline
in textmode, but you can still only ever have 2 colours every
8 pixels (or 9 in normal text mode).
I assure you, your monitor is just not telling you the truth, it
_is_ unchained mode x. I'm not sure what you know about
hardware, but monitors don't know resolution. It looks up
the timing in a table and either a) the timings for textmode and
modex are the same, or b) it doesn't have timing info in it's
lookup table that match mode x, and it just defaults to that
text mode (more likely).
That and the fact that 320x200 doesn't expand nicely into
720x400...
-Gfunk007
"I like walking, but hiking is walking in areas with insects and steep
inclines while carrying dried fruit, and I'm not down with that."
:::: visit me - http://www.gfunk007.com/ :::: ICQ 74477509 ::::
----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Northup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 6:04 AM
Subject: RE: Windows "splash screen" Resolution
> Look guys..., I'm not sure what you know about hardware--but here are the
> details. The actual graphics files (and the images built into io.sys) are
> 320 by 400...., but the display algorithm (the text console built into
> command.com) uses the native text mode as the display mode. This text
mode
> is 720 by 400 (by default....others are available via various hacks....).
> This means that although the file only encodes a display space of 320 by
400
> it is being either expanded, or more likely from the appearance of
> it--interpolated, onto the text console's frame buffer space. Note this
is
> also, as far as I know, only explicitly the case for command.com ver 7.0
or
> greater. I hope that this clears things up a bit.
>
> Drew Northup, N1XIM
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> > Of Josh McDonald
> > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:24 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Windows "splash screen" Resolution
> >
> >
> > Yup, sure is.
> > -Gfunk007
> >
> > "I like walking, but hiking is walking in areas with insects and steep
> > inclines while carrying dried fruit, and I'm not down with that."
> >
> > :::: visit me - http://www.gfunk007.com/ :::: ICQ 74477509 ::::
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nelson Rush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Plex86" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 4:38 PM
> > Subject: RE: Windows "splash screen" Resolution
> >
> >
> > > Actually, I think I know why Drew's monitor detected the wrong
> > resolution.
> > > 320x400 is an unchained mode x hack, right?
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Nelson Rush
> > >
> > > "Listen... strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no
basis
> > for
> > > a system of government."
> > > - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
