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Antony Mawer wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > Standard VGA supports at most 640x480 at 4 bits and 320x200
 > > at 8 bits.  So that's the common denominator.
 > 
 > Do you know if it would be hard to modify splash(4) to supports 640x480 
 > 4-bit images?

Uhm.  Actually I thought that was already supported.
If it's not, it shouldn't be too hard to implement it.
I'll look into that.

Best regards
   Oliver

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