From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie tries to plot a pixel and fails :)
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"Shawn Hargreaves" <SHargreaves AT acclaimstudios DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> James Migel writes:
> > Is it possible that I have to load a color palette
> > before it knows any colors?
>
> It's possible (otherwise you are just relying on your BIOS to have
> set the colors, and I wouldn't trust that to always give you the same
> colors on every different machine).

Doesn't the VGA spec give a default 256-color palette?
(EGA palette, gray ramp, NES-ish palette...)


Damian Yerrick