Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/16/13:27:56
Allegro does not support any colour depths other than 256 colours for the
time being. Shawn is planning to add 16- and 32-bit colour to a future
release, but for now, it's only 256 colours.
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Sly (Steve)
sly AT aussie DOT net
Andy Eder <sp1edea AT doc DOT ntu DOT ac DOT uk> wrote in article
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> Hi, all.
>
> Can someone out there please help me out with my problem ?
> At the moment, I'm using DJGPP with Allegro 2 for a simple 3D graphics
> engine. Basically, a scene is created and then rendered to screen. The
> problem is that I am using only 256 colour modes (320x200 and 640x480)
> for displaying the objects in the scene. Question is - how can I use the
> Hi- and True colour modes available for rendering the scene ?
>
> My graphics card supports VESA 2 standard - will this help ? If you can
> help me, or suggest some links to try, it will be greatly appreciated.
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