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Article #27Is there a VGA version of doom?
From: brian.... Brian Hurley
Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 21:13
Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 21:13
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No offense, but I don't think you know what VGA is. Doom is Vga! You
might be thinking of SVGA. Look closly at the Doom title screen. You
cant tell me that you can count only 16 colors used. Just to try it out,
you can type DOOM -devparm to load up Doom. When you get to the title
screen press F1. This will capture the screen to a PCX file. Use a paint
program to open the PCX file. When you go to look at its statistics it
should say something like 320x240x256. Which means the width and the
height and finally the colors. If I'm correct, 320x200x256 is a Vga
mode. Ega can't display all those colors. I personally would like to see
an Svga version of Doom, but None are in the works. BTW, the title
screen doesn't look that bad. In fact, I like it.
Brian
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