Mac OSX display depth colour oddness

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Nov 5 23:37:04 UTC 2004


Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> wrote:

> Am 05.11.2004 um 22:15 schrieb Tim Rowledge:
> 
> > I've just been testing out something in a 3.8b image on my pMac and
> > noticed a strange colour effect. The default for the vanilla image is
> > 16bpp and it looked just awful on a 32bpp display - very visible
> > dithering on the gradient backgrounds of the menus, change in desktop
> > colour etc. Setting Squeak to 32bpp made it looked ok.
> > On Acorn it looks the same in 16 or 32bpp settings. :-)
> 
> John only recently fixed this, in 3.7.5b1.
SO it did. Looks much better now.

tim
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