Well, obviously, you can use 256 colors in anything that uses colors. Text, lines, circles, images, etc. Now, the most common ways of using 256 colors is probably loading images. There are several ways to do this, but two of the most popular are loading gifs and pcx's. I won't go into details, but you can download a gifloader from my download section, or from just about any other page. Anyway, continue on to the next tutorial for the meat of using 256 colors: changing palettes. This is beginning to seem like a joke where someone wraps your present in 6 boxes or something. Anyway...