Technical data

Autostar IP
-38-
Grayscale Palette
and Standard Palette
The Grayscale Palette and Standard Palette commands are used together to optimize your systems'
ability to display gray scale images. If you are running in a standard VGA display mode, these commands
will be enabled. Since these commands are not required in other display modes, they will appear
disabled.
The standard VGA mode allows only 16 simultaneous colors, with this limitation in mind, Windows
requires that these colors be set to the standards 'pure' colors, e.g. red, green, blue, magenta, etc., this
provides only two gray values plus black and white. To improve you capability of viewing the high
resolution B/W images, Epoch 2000 re-programs the hardware registers on the VGA board to display 16
gray values instead of 16 'pure' colors. By selecting the standard 16 color palette in the Image, Palette
menu when the Grayscale Palette is active, you will be able to view the images in 16 shades of gray
NOTE: The Grayscale Palette function removes all colors from the display leaving only shades of gray.
Make sure you restore the regular colors by selecting the Standard Palette before you run other color
intensive applications.