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Re:Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 by listic on Monday July 26, 2010 @04:54AM (#1547497)
640*480 _is_ VGA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution
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Re:Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 by pavlov on Monday July 26, 2010 @05:19AM (#1547538)
Sure, but VGA only supported a palette of 16 colors at 640 * 480.

Lacking an official standard, 640 * 480 with 256 colors was usually marketed as a "Super VGA" mode in the early '90s.

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