Subj : Re: Price Piece in your c
To   : Dr. What
From : Spectre
Date : Sun May 15 2022 12:38:00

 DW> Did a monochrome VGA display offer 256 shades of green/amber?

Depends on the monitor, VGA card combo.  There was a detection system to
decide if a monitot was mono or colour.  In strictly mono mode they're only
using the green video feed, so greys are limited.  If you either added an
adapter to the monitot to make the card see colour or the card didn't care
what was attached or you could fool it some other way, then yes you could get
"256" greys except it wouldn't really be 256... but it did result in a far
better, more graduated picture....

Spec


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