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From: hedger@inmet.inmet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEM help needed
Message-ID: <30200013@inmet>
Date: 9 Nov 89 01:47:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet.inmet.com!hedger    Nov  8 20:47:00 1989


Got it!  I am posting this in case anyone else out there gets bitten.
First of all, the main problem was in fact user error. None of the
docs that I had mentioned that when you are in medium resolution you
can only use 4 colors (I knew that), but they also failed to mention 
that you can also use only the FIRST four colors. 
These are supposed to be 0=black,1=white,2=red, and 3=green.
Not so, in fact 0=black,1=white,2=green and 3=blue. Anything else
returns white. It never occurred to me to just try each color in 
order, big mistake it turns out.
Anyway, that's the answer to this problem and I am going to call
Mark Williams and let them know they have what appears to be a 
documentation error.



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