Rich wrote:
I think its just using a truecolor output, not doing truecolor rendering. I think Jonathan added that code fairly recently. It might be in the docs, I'm not sure. Those modes were in the existing fractint.cfg, I just tossed 'em in there to see what would happen :-).
We dragged Bert Tyler out of fractint retirement to add the VESA true color modes quite a while ago. They work, but the program architecture assumes 256 colors in most places, so true color is not well integrated. After the basic refactor is done, Paul DeLeeuw's handling of truecolor would be good to look at. That said, I think the project is best served by the literal port approach you are taking, except for legacy code that we're quite sure we don't want (e.g. built-in printer drivers). -- and hold off and add new features later. Tim