From: "Al Amzeen (Alexandr Amzin)" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Help with hicolor mode Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:42:47 +0400 Organization: Fidolook Express page http://fidolook.da.ru Lines: 19 Message-ID: <8f5ut1$1trl$1@gavrilo.mtu.ru> References: <3917CDC5 DOT 8B6227C1 AT free DOT fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp108-73.dialup.mtu-net.ru X-Trace: gavrilo.mtu.ru 957775586 63349 212.188.108.73 (8 May 2000 08:46:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse AT mtu DOT ru NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2000 08:46:26 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Fidolook Express V1.51rus for MS OE 5.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Greetings, Kirill Pankratiev ! You wrote: > Hello all! > I have a problem and apparently very few people really know how to solve > > it... > I would like to a 16 bit (or 24 or even 32 because since you know how > the first works > the others become trivial) color mode to display simultaneously 2 bitmap > > with different > palettes how can i do that? Does that really have to do anything with > the DAC registers > or when we talk TRUECOLOR we donut have to worry about it any longer?? Not at full scale. If you have two CRAZY different 16-bitters and try to output them in 16-bit mode then one of them will garble a little. But those are rare. So get allegro docs and set color total conversion -- it have to decrease pallettes difference.