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HX GUI improvements || MODEX vs VGA (DOSX)

posted by DOS386, 13.08.2007, 07:38

> IIRC DDRAW has no support for 16 color modes at all,
> and for OGL this might be true as well.

Unsurprisingly would have to truncate them down from 8 bpp ...

> That's why IMO supporting the 640x400 VGA modeX

Is it a linear 8 bpp mode ? The "ModeX" IIRC happens to work usually OTOH it's somewhat "undocumented" and not really required to work ... so it's not the safest mode

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          • HX GUI improvements || MODEX vs VGA - Japheth, 13.08.2007, 08:37
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