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Re: 256 color BMPs uploaded to cica

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From: John Locke
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 1990 18:08
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In article <> hirayama@sumax.UUCP (Pat Hirayama) writes:

# A word of caution ... at least on the ATI card, when I call up some of
# these, the color appears off when they are installed as the Desktop
# wallpaper.  If you open up the BMP in Paintbrush after installing it
# as wallpaper, the color maps are corrected.  I suspect that the
# Desktop program is selecting the wrong 256 color pallete to work with,
# which Paintbrush corrects by selecting the correct one.  Does this
# sound right?  Any other ideas?

After installing any of these as wallpaper, I had to exit Windows and
restart it before they looked right.
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From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
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Subject: Re: 256 color BMPs uploaded to cica
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Date: 20 Nov 90 18:08:15 GMT
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