Color settings

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Color settings

Hello,

I'm needing to verify setting monitor controls to what I need and I haven't found anything to do so in the control panels...

How do I ensure I'm using 16 bit color as opposed to 32 bit or any other setting?

I need to use 16 bit color for the Application I'm using.

Thank you,
Mike

eMac (USB 2.0) 2GB, SD, 500 GB WD SE, Mac OS 10.4.11. B/W 400, Rev 2. , 9200 128, Mac OS 9.2.x, VR, 90 GB. 640 MB RAM, Mac OS 9.2.2

Posted on Feb 15, 2009 11:29 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 15, 2009 12:00 PM in response to Learning___

Hi Mike;

What application pray tell is that you are using?

Allan

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Answer 2

Feb 15, 2009 12:30 PM in response to Learning___

Mike,

My understanding is that 16 bit is "thousands of colours" in the control panel.

Michael

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Answer 3

Feb 15, 2009 12:46 PM in response to Michael Wasley

Quite right, 16-bit is "Thousands" and 32-bit is "Millions".

Is this "FASTT Math" on a MacBook? some other Application? Which one, on which computer?

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Learning___ Author

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Feb 15, 2009 4:30 PM in response to Michael Wasley

Hi, Michael-

Much thanks go out to you. I wasn't sure what 16 bit was exactly without anything
in Mac Help coming up.

I'm using Tomb Raider Level Editor, which came with the Tomb Raider Chronicles.
Learning the basics and started building my first room last night. Couldn't get the
room to load without typing the suffix ".PRJ" after the title. Anyway got it loaded. It's way cool.
My current monitor is a CRT 1024x768 Thousands and a max res @ millions. I usually have it at Thousands of colors anyway. Except when we run the tons of educational programs for the kids. - Most of the time those programs reset the resolution for the specified setting. Just had to be sure of this.

Thank you all for the tips! 🙂

-Mike

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Answer 5

Learning___ Author

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Feb 16, 2009 3:26 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Forgot to mention, the TRLE pdf states that it needs 16-bit, 1024x768 resolution
to run properly. Just had to be sure so it ran properly so there's no problems.

Here's a preview of my work: !http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/7122/trleqo8.jpg/post.gif!

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