Pretty sure it's a hardware limitation - and running thousands/millions of colours on an LC would be like watching an etch-a-sketch 
Post #2 by Byrd
| Source Forum | 768k VRAM in original Macintosh LC — #2 |
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| Category | 68k |
| Post Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2014 - 21:59 |
| Original URL | https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/768k-vram-in-original-macintosh-lc.29654/ |
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