Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/11/29/22:06:44
Heya
> "Shawn Hargreaves" <SHargreaves AT acclaimstudios DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> > James Migel writes:
> > > Is it possible that I have to load a color palette
> > > before it knows any colors?
> >
> > It's possible (otherwise you are just relying on your BIOS to have
> > set the colors, and I wouldn't trust that to always give you the same
> > colors on every different machine).
>
> Doesn't the VGA spec give a default 256-color palette?
> (EGA palette, gray ramp, NES-ish palette...)
>
> Damian Yerrick
Yep, in that order... The "NES-ish" palette is a set of colours reramped at
slightly darker colours... I think they attempted to get a combination of
colours that could support all images but I think it's horrible anyway ;)
Michael
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