O YEAH! What a deal!!!

[Jeffrey Armstrong]

--- ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> Yes, but most of the 'IBM incompatibles' had 1 bit per pixel, just 
on/off
>monochrome grpahics. The 'Bow had a CLUT and up to 4 bits per pixel I 
think.

The Rainbow could do 4 colors from a pallette of 4096 in hi-res (800x240) 
and 16 from a pallette of 4096 in low-res (384x240). The fact that the 
pallette was not fixed was a major selling point with some because, in 
low-res, properly dithered photographic pictures would look far better 
than on the fixed-pallete IBM PC modes (CGA, EGA).

What's a CLUT, by the way?  Not familiar with that acronym...

-Jeff Armstrong
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