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The rainbow spew error in Ostrova.
"Rainbow spew" is the Creatures term given to the effect of attempting to display a texture or sprite in the wrong color depth. For example, if a program tries to load a 24-bit bitmap as a 16-bit bitmap, it will read the first two bytes, instead of the first three, and attempt to display that color as the first pixel, then read
| What is stored | 8 | C | C | 3 | 2 | A | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | C | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What is displayed | 8 | C | C | 3 | 2 | A | 9 | 0 |
See also 555/565, green spew.
