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- From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: How does 16 bit color work?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.220735.26593@kth.se>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:07:35 GMT
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- In <cshotton-110193133957@oac2.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton) writes:
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- >How is 16 bit color implemented?
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- There's a tech note on it. Actually it's 15-bit color,
- 5 bits for red, green and blue (the uppermost bit is
- unspecified)
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- This means that it's a direct, not indexed device, and
- you can't do pallette animation.
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- Cheers,
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- / h+
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