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to: BORIS TERZIC
from: KURT KUZBA
date: 1997-07-29 12:24:00
subject: Palette in textmode?

BT> KK>   It seems that the text modes do not use the VGA
BT> KK>   palette. They use the EGA palette, in which the order
BT> KK>   of the colors is different.
BT>   Strange, I have been using the VGA palette in text-mode
BT>   for years now and that works just fine (first 16 colors).
   Perhaps it differes from video card to video card?
   I don't really know. I found this business of the colors
   being of the EGA palette to be the case on a Tseng 4000.
   Other chipsets may give other results.
> ] The Sky is full of Good and Bad that Mortals Never Know.....
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