Re: [MiNT] XaAES palette

[David Sandberg <david@tomsand.com>]

Am Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:04:08 +0100
schrieb Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:

> On 23/01/2013 08:40, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> >> 1) How can any palette affect the display in True Color modes?
> >
> > It's the icons being in 8bit or less that have to match the palette.
> 
> Oh. This means that the icons inside .rsc files does not embed
> palette information?
> 
> >> 2 In xaaes.cnf, if I use "palette = nvdi" then the XaAES logo
> >> looks a lot smoother (of course after the blue-icons fix ;-) )
> >> Is this the preferred setting?
> >
> > It should always look the same, no matter what palette you select.
> > Look for remap_cicons and icn_pal_name in example.cnf, the wiki is
> > quite messy sometimes.
> 
> I'm a bit lost.
> Actually, I would expect to see the right colors in the XaAES logo
> with the default example.cnf. Currently it is blue with some white
> pixels, this looks wrong.
> Adding "palette = nvdi" seemed to fix the problem, but looking at the 
> other options you indicated, I don't know what is the right fix.
> 

I remember on my Falcon and Hades times, that on 256 colours there was
always differences between the palette=nvdi or palette=gem in some icon
sets, correlated to the 8bit or 16bit of the Icon resolution. It's a
dark remember on early times.

David