On Tuesday 20 February 2001 10:53 pm, David Forbes wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Dave Daniels wrote:
> > > I have increased the DRAM to one megabyte (the maximum) and it
> > > made no difference. The screen resolution I used was 800 by 600 by
> > > 256 colours.
> >
> > The current console code can't really deal with 800x600 ... you should
> > choose a different resolution ... but allways 256 colours ... the console
> > cant handle less colours too AFAIK ... 32K or 16M is OK.
>
> I've heard this said before, but I'm not sure what the root of it is.  I'm
> pretty sure this is a 800x600 screen I'm using now, on my A7000+ running
> 1.4.  Has something changed between 1.4 & 1.5.  That said, I can't
> convince it to use more than 256 colours.

Possibly not, you're using DRAM, so there maybe a restriction.  That said I'm 
sure I saw something else to do with the 7500 chips and what screens they can 
do in the code..

AFAIR 800x600 should work, but you end up with the bottom line being cut in 
half, although I've not run 800x600 for a long long time.

Cheers,
Chris