[crossfire] cfclient colouring

[Brendan Lally]

On 2/1/06, Mark Wedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
> Brendan Lally wrote:
>   actually, I don't think there is anything specific about using 16 colors.  I
> think it was just that 16 colors were used - it could very well be 12 or 25 - as
> far as X is concerned, it doesn't care (unless someone only had 4 bit color, but
> I don't know if such hardware ever existed).

ega cards on (very) old IBM PCs support only 16 displayable colours, I
don't know if they can run X though. - in any case their resolution
probably wouldn't be enough to show the entire screen.

>   Private colormap is a leftover from 8 bit display - most 8 bit hardware could
> only display 256 different colors at a time, but out of the palette of 16
> million (24 bit color).  So one would use colormaps to determine what colors of
> the palette your are drawing.

Is that why I have seen colours shift with application focus on very
old sparc systems running X?