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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Programming Palettes in Win 3.0
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A Microsft source told me that Palettes are "programmable" ONLY with drivers
and hardware that support 256 colors  (or more).  This seems to be quite
restrictive considering that VGA can really have a huge palette (256K). 
Now the question comes up:  is this an "inherent" misfeature of
Windows, or could somebody write a 16 color VGA driver, in which the
16 colors CAN be changed by changing the system palette?

-- Marco
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