Color: 32 bit

Hardware theme

A color mode where each color exists as 8 bit integer with added 8 bit alpha channel.

35
games
7
platforms

Alternate names: RGBA8888, 8i, True color, RGBA8

Preceded by:
* 16 bit color (Hi-color)

Succeeded by:
* 16 bit floating point color (64 bit)

Related:
* 24 bit color (same as 32 bit except lacks alpha channel)

Apple, in an effort to hide their bits from public view, refers to 16-bit color as "thousands of colors" and 24-bit color as "millions of colors". When Macs became available with 32-bit color, it was also called "millions of colors". Leading to confusion and the joke of calling it "even more friggin colors". But Apple eventually eliminated the confusion by removing the option for users to change or view their color depth.

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Parent group

Color depth

Games by year

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The first Color: 32 bit video game was released in 1997.

Tripwire Interactive, id Software and Activision published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 14
Linux 12
Mac OS X 4
Xbox 2
Mac OS Classic 1
Android 1
BSD 1