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# on Macs
most cards seem to use a purpley colour, but
I don't know the hex. So I'm not a geek-god like
lumpbucket :(
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:22, archived)
# would either of you
like to come and sit the computer science exams i have next week for me?
(I helped save b3ta! the triple legendary unicorn, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:25, archived)
# Are you sure?
I got a D in GCSE IT :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:26, archived)
# I only know the colour the Amiga picks
because I wrote my own software for my WinTV card, and when trying to overlay text onto the TV screen discovered that colour was the one picked by the operating system when I opened the PIP window.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:25, archived)
# Probably
0xFFFF00FF ('cause I expect a Mac would use 32-bit colour...)

/ratherlargeovercoat
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:30, archived)
# I would put money on it
not being full-brightness purple.

I wonder if modern cards can use the alpha byte of 32 bit colour to fade from screen bitmap to PIP bitmap smoothly? (anyone?) that would rock :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:32, archived)