Ive been trying to write a Bitmap class, which could support several bitmap types, but Im having some problems with the BMPs, I want to load 24bit BMPs and then convert 'em to 16bits... Im also not using many of the Win32 stuff to do this (except for BITMAPFILEHEADER and BITMAPINFOHEADER), the rest Im doing it by myself so I can optimize it better... also, Im trying to load the actual image data to memory.

If you need anymore details, let me know.

Thanks,

Luis Sempe
visual@guate.net

Check out this topic:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000225.html

There is some code there you might be able to use.

- Splat