From: "Sly" <sly AT antispam DOT aussie DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: More Colours
Date: 16 Mar 1997 13:37:19 GMT
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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)
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Andy Eder <sp1edea AT doc DOT ntu DOT ac DOT uk> wrote in article
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970312104818 DOT 9087A-100000 AT chris>...
> 
> 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.