Re: displaying mare than 256 colors on a trident 8900cl card with 1MB of vram

[Paul Sheer <psheer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 8900cl has no hardware support for more than 8 bit color.

some of the later similar cards did have hardware support, but never had
even dos or windows drivers for 16bit color. Only the more recent tridents
have 16bit color support.

I strongly recommend getting a 2 meg S3 card - they are very cheep.

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, fhh wrote:

> Howzit , I wonder if anybody can tell me wether i can display more than
> 256 colors on my trident
> 8900 cl card. I got 1Meg of vram on it. I installed the SVGA driver but
> it just displays 256 colors.
> And i was hoping that it could display maybe 16 bpp color. it's an isa
> board. Can anyone help.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Frankie
> fhh@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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