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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
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Subject: Re: What's the screen depth?
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Date: 2 Apr 91 08:52:43 GMT
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In article <1991Mar29.153818.11510@santra.uucp> jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
>There's another thing you should be aware of. Some Macs have color, but
>not color quickdraw. You can actually buy 16-color boards for the SE and
>they use the old color model for drawing.

This is a problem.  I do the standard GetDevice/GetNextDevice/intersect window
loop to determine whether to use old-style colors or patterns.  There doesn't
seem to be any way to detect these old-style color boards except by using
device-specific routines (if they have some).  Am I missing anything?

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