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From: ncsmith@ndsuvax.UUCP (Timothy Lyle Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal Colors
Message-ID: <3023@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 04:02:49 GMT
References: <503@uwm.edu>
Reply-To: ncsmith@ndsuvax.UUCP (Timothy Lyle Smith)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <503@uwm.edu> jrn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (James Ray Norton) writes:
>
>Hi got a question:
>
>I am using Turbo Pascal V 5.0.  And I am trying to set the RGB color palette
>by doing the following......
>
>begin
>  Mode:=VGAHI;
>  Driver:=VGA;
>  InitGraph(Drover, Mode, 'a:\');

[stuff about getting only the default colors]

The problem here is that the range of colors in the VGAHI mode is only
the default colors.  The VGA standard allows 256 colors in the 320x200
mode only.  I have seen your problem with other people so I can only
assume that Borland did not allow the SetRGBPalette function to work in
any other mode besides 320x200, this assumes that you have the over
256K of video memory that is needed to use more than 16 colors in the
640x480 mode.


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