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From: johnl@walt.cc.utexas.edu (John Lange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Colors in Windows / Using 34010 adapters
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Date: 5 Nov 90 06:23:15 GMT
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Has anyone been successful at color cycling under Windows?  That is,
given some bitmap, rotate colors to get interesting effects.  For an
excellent idea of color cycling, run fractint and use +/- keys.

Also, is there a way to set which colors are used by Windows on systems
that would allow this outside of Windows?  For example, if your video
card can display 256 out of 256000 possible colors, can you determine
which 256 are used under Windows?  I'm not referring to dithered colors.
I know Windows can dither colors.  I am only interested in pure undithered
colors.

I realize that these things might be considered "device dependent",
and as such are probably not supported in Windows.  

Has anyone played around with TMS34010 based video cards in the context
of the above questions?

Some TMS34010 cards support "display lists".  Can these be used at all
from Windows programs?

One last question - does anyone know of 24 bit plane boards that are 
reasonably priced which have Windows drivers?