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On 04 Jun 2001, Angelo Mottola <a.mottola@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But a BeOS user could have an
> Allegro program running in truecolor over a truecolor desktop; what if he/she
> attempts to change the desktop depth to 8bit while the program is running?
Crash, IIRC..
> No, IMHO we must add truecolor->8bit conversion support to the common API.
> What do you think?
I don't think we need to vote on this :-) I did post a message on
AD which outlined how Michael's truecolour -> 8bpp conversion code
works. It's actually really simple. (And if someone wrotes an asm
version of it, that'd be great! :-)
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