After a quick look at the program...omg...

First off, the messages are in Russian.  The English readme files says 
it can take a bitmap (32 bit or otherwise) and remaps it to Duke's 
palette...turning black into the transparent color.  Not sure how much 
more of a pain in the ass the programmer could have made it.  Black gets 
used a lot in textures.  So option 4 is fairly useless imo.  

The other things it seems to do is extract a palette from an 8 bit bitmap (not all 
that useful, considering most paint progs can do that), convert a 32 bit 
image to the VESA default palette (maybe useful for some DOS 
programmers, but not for Duke really), and remap a 32 bit file to an 8 
bit custom palette.  The latter is so easy to do with any other program 
I'm not sure why he needed to write a prog to do it.  

I think the absolute easiest program (which has more features than this) for what he 
seems to be after is texture colorizer, which we already have (and it's 
in English and has a point and click interface).  It lets you remap a 
bitmap to an 8 bit palette (duke's or otherwise) and use either the 
whole palette or a range of colors from that palette.  Also lets you 
lighten/darken the image and still match the palette. 

Dunno, maybe this would be good to have for non-English speaking 
Russians who desperately need....well, maybe not.  The palette format is 
act, which I think is Adobe's format, so for them to use this they need 
Photoshop anyway.  So, no, not all that useful, even for Russians, imo. :)

Good job finding that though.  You must have had to sift through a lot 
of Cyrillic to find that prog. :)
 
 
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My utility that converts BMP-pictures to BMPs with Duke palette. It`s for those who make user graphics for levels.
 
