In article <46547CA0.13938.16EFC3@twegner.swbell.net>, "Tim Wegner" <twegner@swbell.net> writes:
Seriously, we just saw no reason to keep around more bits than the video DAC could utilize.
There wasn't any extra space required; it would have been better to keep the full 8-bits around everywhere until you wrote the dac, but what's done is done.
I presume this is moot if you are past the point of programming the DAC directly to rotate colors, as I'm sure you are.
The X11 code certainly doesn't diddle the DAC directly and the Windows code doesn't either. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>