From: arganoid AT fatal-design DOT com (Andrew R. Gillett)
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Subject: Re: 24-bit color using Allegro
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 01:08:27 -0000
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, DeHackEd wrote:
> The simple solution is this:
> 
> set_color_depth( either 8,15,16,24 or 32);
> 
> And that's it.  Setting a graphics mode will use that colour depth, loaded
> bitmaps will use whatever is used (not sure how palette paramater is used
> though...) and create_bitmap defaults to the specified colour depth.

And then replace the colour argument on all the plotting routines with 
makecol(r,g,b).

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