Dean Hamstead wrote:
why 15 bit, like 16bit is 2bytes. wouldnt running 15 cause funny problems, or just be wasting one bit? unless powerpc doesnt have 8bit bytes or something.
Apple's OS (at least prior to OS X) didn't deal with any non-palletized video mode where the color field sizes weren't equal. Apple just didn't care to support such modes for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is it's very difficult to have truly balanced color selections in a 5:6:5 mode). So, since Apple's OS didn't support it, most Apple hardware didn't properly - if at all - handle 16-bit color depths.
-- Derrik Pates dpates@dsdk12.net