Doug asked:
What does this mean as far as 256 color pictues on my machine?
The 8 bits per pixel modes are 256 colors. See below. To use these modes, you may want to run the makefcfg program, or you may be able to edit.
Mode 0x101: 640x480 8 bpp packed pixel Mode 0x103: 800x600 8 bpp packed pixel Mode 0x105: 1024x768 8 bpp packed pixel Mode 0x107: 1280x1024 8 bpp packed pixel
BTW Doug, what is the name of your board? I'm not familiar with the brookdale BIOS. I am going out the door to buy a new video board, whish me luck ... will report yea or nay later this afternoon. If one's ONLY concern were Fractint (not 3D gaming graphics), older boards using Nvidia RIVA TNT chips work really well, up to 1600x1200x256. These go for $12 or so on Ebay. Try searching for "Nvidia Riva TNT". It would be fun to put together a legacy Fractint- optimized PC that was as cheap as possible ... though porting to newer environments would make this moot. Tim