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From: hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu (Hans van Oostrom)
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Subject: Re: Changing the system pallette
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Date: 28 Jun 91 00:39:06 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.080453.19297@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick) writes...
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>I was working with my programmer today trying to change the system color
>pallette from that funky set of garish bright colors to a support
>an 8 element gray scale. Anyone have any examples of how this is done, as
>the discussion in the reference manual isn't working.
> 

From an article in a recent PC magazine (environments) by Petzold I 
read that the standard VGA driver of windows does not allow pallette 
changes.  The grays demo program that is provided in that article 
proves it.  You might be able to do this with other vendors 'standard' 
vga drivers, but I haven't tried that.

Hans van Oostrom
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