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Old 11-07-2009, 09:35 PM   #1 (permalink)
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converting images to 256 colors

I'm using XnView to do screenshot captures of old DOS games (in which the graphics were in 256 colors) in Windows XP. I played these games in DOSbox. At game (and DOSbox) exit, there is a dialog box that asks me what color mode I'd like to save these screenshots in, but it's locked on "true color" with no way to change the color mode.

So I tried opening a screenshot in XnView and trying to convert to 256 colors -

1) original image;



2) attempting to convert to 256 colors from within XnView;



3) the color conversion has no effect;



4) when I click "save", this dialog box is locked on True Color (it comes up upon DOSbox/game exit after using XnView to capture the gameplay screenshots) with no way to change this True Color setting;



Does anyone know of any way I can fix these screenshots? Some OS X program which I can d/l for free?

I did a color count on one of the images and the color count averages 9000+ colors.

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Old 11-08-2009, 03:11 AM   #2 (permalink)
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If you ran it in Safe Mode would it force it to 256 colors?
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Toy Viewer will do a colour reduction to 256.
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