Re: tlug: Grrr... Why won't the same solution work for the same problem twice?

[Dmytro Kovalev <kovald@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> writes:


    Jonathan> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
    >> I was kind of expecting 1024X768 (256 colours only) because
    >> that's what I got on this machine way, way back in the day when
    >> it was a Win95 machine.  Perhaps I've gotten the VRAM wrong as
    >> well... I'm capable of just about any mistake, no matter how
    >> large or small.

    Jonathan> I had a Windows 95 machine with a 1 meg card and it
    Jonathan> would go 800 x 600 by 256 colors, but not 1024 x 768
    Jonathan> (that would go down to 16 colors).

Calculations show it would go to 1024x768:

256 colors is 1 byte and 1024*768*1=786432 bytes which is less than
1M. This is no a problem of not having enough VRAM 

- dmytro


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