I never had any trouble putting either 8 or 4 bit images into ADGE -- as long as the first 16 colours are the DM palette, it works fine.
I don't use gimp, but you should be able to take an 8-bit image down to 4-bit quite easily. Search it's help files for "colour depth".
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