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Subject:	Re: Allegro Bitmap Colour Problem
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Date:	Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:15:06 GMT
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Great thanks very much for your help! I think I'll go with the color
conversion route instead of the truecolour way cause there's gonna be some
serious blitting and true colour will slow it down.

Thanks again I appretiate it,
Paul M.

"Andrew R. Gillett" wrote:

> In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, PM wrote:
> > When I blit more than 1 bitmap on the screen, the colour is messed up
> > big time on all bitmaps except the last bitmap that I opened.
>
> That's because you're in 256 (8 bit) colour mode, and each bitmap is
> using a different palette. Either convert your bitmaps so that they are
> all using the same palette, or run your program in high/true colour mode
> (see set_color_depth function in Allegro documentation).
>
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Paul M.
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