Re: 256 colors

Keith Thomas (thomask@supernet.ab.ca)
Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:30:48 EST

At 11:36 AM 13/03/96, Michael A. MacPherson <macphmia@nbed.nb.ca> wrote:
>I have a Mac LC that does not display 256 colors. I have gone into the
>control panel and tried to set it to 256 colors, but thete is no option
>available. Only for black & white, 4, and 16 colors. I know in the past the
>256 color option was there. Any ideas?

>From your description of options available in the control panel, it sounds
as if you have insufficient video RAM to support 256 color (standard VRAM
on your system is 256K). If you upgraded the VRAM to 512K you would then
have the ability to access 256 colors.

Keith Thomas
thomask@supernet.ab.ca