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320x200 256 colors under windows 3.1
Name: Michaël Barchy Date: October 1, 2001 at 03:57:46 Pacific
Comment:
Is it possible to have 256 colors with a 256kb graphic card in Windows 3.1 If so, is there a driver to make this work If don't please don't reply Thanks for you gelp
Name: kevin Date: October 1, 2001 at 08:11:04 Pacific
Reply:
Michael,
As far as I know, you need a minumum of 512K to get 256 colors. Usually its easier to find a 1K video card.
Kevin
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Response Number 2
Name: Silverpower Date: October 3, 2001 at 09:16:45 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, there was a driver that does the trick on the Win3.0 Multimedia Extensions CD that does 320x200x256. This is almost useless under 3.1 and completely useless under Win9x.
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Response Number 3
Name: Soedesh Date: March 4, 2002 at 17:41:03 Pacific
Reply:
Ok this is a very late answer to some older questions but there does exist such a driver. Do an internetsearch for MMDISP.exe
some other keywords:
Microsoft Windows Version 3.1 Windows Driver Library WDL.TXT - rev 3/26/92
You must know that some Windows application are not usable with this low resolution, so maybe you can install a second instance of windows on your harddrive with only applications that run in 320x200 well....
Uhh well the driver I found did work for 3.1x but not for 3.0????
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