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On 01 May 2001, Angelo Mottola <a.mottola@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I don't think it'd be that hard to add 15bit support at this point.
> Truecolor to palette would require much more work, and I'm a bit lost in it
> currently, so maybe this is a job for Michael or Peter, who coded the X and
> BeOS drivers (that support also this kind of conversion).
The truecolour to palette conversion is based on a limited lookup
table (0x1000 entries). To index the table, each RGB component is
reduced to 4 bits of precision (2^(3*4) == 0x1000).
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