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It's not rediculous at all; but it doesn't fit with the way that the program works internally. We use multiple arrays of bytes, one array for red, one for green, blue, mask, etc. There's no unit smaller than a byte. There's another factor – if we DID handle things as bitplanes, you'd see really, and I mean *really* slow processing of images. THings like the blitter are good at that, but general purpose processors, to date, are not. So not silly, but not applicable to the way we're doing things. We *may* add an 8-bit only mode, there have been a few requests for it and it would be relatively easy (compared to variable bitplanes) to fit into our current structure. –Ben