Palette
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Dialog Box: Palette [ Settings Menu]

The primary 16-color palette is used to set up a 256-color palette for 8-bit screen display or raster output, and also to set the primary choices for color in all cases (you can always select other colors using different RGB values). See Colors and Palettes for more detail. The default palette has the same RGB values as the "alternate" palette used in DOS versions of SHAPE, but rearranged to a more logical order.

You can read and write the RGB values to palette (.PAL) files. Two palettes are provided on file: STANDARD.PAL and ALTERNATE.PAL, which are respectively the standard IBM/DOS palette and the default alternate palette used in DOS versions of SHAPE. It is easy to write or modify the .PAL files directly; they simply contain the RGB values, from 0 to 255, separated by spaces (or commas).