How do I detect if desktop is 256 color?

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warrenM. We are not talking about writing games that work on 256 colors, we are trying to figure out how to tell them that the software dosent work on 256 colours. So your "you shold support them" is pointless.

As a sensible sudjestion, colud you plot to one of the buffers, then read the pixel, and see if its changed.

ps. I dont even have an option to drop to 256 colours any more.