Color: 24 bit
Hardware theme
9
games
6platforms
Alternate names: RGB888, RGB8, 8i, True color
WIN 2003-05-01
DOS 1995
WIN 2000-07-25
WIN 1998-10-10
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.
RGB8 can also refer to 8-bit monochrome format, but that is misleading with the inclusion of RGB color space in the name, thus RGB8 refers to RGB888 here exclusively.