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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:51:00 +0100, Harald Milz wrote: >Sir Gwynz (sirgwynz@bellatlantic.net) wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:09:43 -0500, you wrote: >> >> >Is the TP365XD capable of more than 256 colors? I bought a game that=20 >> >needs 16,000,000 colors and it refused to run on my laptop. When I=20 >> >looked in the settings for the display, only 256 colors comes up. =20 >> >Can the video be upgraded, or is this my only choice? >> > >> >Sandy >> >> You're limited to 256 colors with a dual-scan screen, an active-matrix >> screen can display more but I don't know if it can do 16 million. In >> any case, plugging in an external monitor will work with the higher >> color mode. > >If you have enough video RAM and if the graphics chips provides the >respective modes. You will have to make a tradeoff between color depth >and pixel resolution. > >In your case, the Cyber9320 graphics chip can only deliver 16bpp I believe. > > That would be 65,536, right? The number of bits for the video mode doesn't have to do with the res., does it?