Some guy went on a patching spree, adding 24-bit colour support all around:
https://gist.github.com/XVilka/
8346728
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
                return i;
 
        if (vc->vc_par[i] == 5 && i + 1 <= vc->vc_npar) {
-               /* 256 colours -- ubiquitous */
+               /* 256 colours */
                i++;
                rgb_from_256(vc->vc_par[i], &c);
        } else if (vc->vc_par[i] == 2 && i + 3 <= vc->vc_npar) {
-               /* 24 bit -- extremely rare */
+               /* 24 bit */
                c.r = vc->vc_par[i + 1];
                c.g = vc->vc_par[i + 2];
                c.b = vc->vc_par[i + 3];