Oh, it's real fun trying to deliberately work with 8-bit paletted images these days.
I don't want to install the "yeah we always knew that was a disability slur, we did it on purpose, WONTFIX" Image Manipulation Program. Krita's devs have answered "can I see the actual palette of an indexed image?" before with basically "Um, Actually, why would anyone even want to??? WONTFIX".
Am I going to have to install something that pretends its UI is an upscaled Amiga 320x200 one with great big fucken pseudopixels For The Aesthetic? Fuck, I hope not
I am resorting to Python to work out what various state the internals of my files are even in. First discovery: the command-line tool I was using to ensure these files were 256-color might have been doing that, but was...writing out 24-bit BMPs with only 256 unique pixel values in.
ffffffu—
Second discovery: the multiple online sources casually going "haha, for all practical purposes you'll never have to worry about which version of a BMP file you have: just assume the info header is the 40-byte-long vertsion!" can get fucked, because these files (after causing me a little confusion) most definitely have the 124-byte version that Microsoft added in...
NT 5.0, aka Windows 2000,
