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Re: Problems with Marathon



>>>>> "Jared" == Jared Roberts <jared@cyberspace.com> writes:

    Jared> Looks like I wasn't detailed enough the first time... Yes,
    Jared> I'm on 1.99o, for both DOS and Linux, and using UNIVBE for
    Jared> DOS (I also tried without).  Before I start Marathon (The
    Jared> 4L demo or something -- I just downloaded it from
    Jared> ftp.bungie.com), the prefs panel says 256 colors, and I've
    Jared> even tried starting executor with "-bpp 8", but Marathon
    Jared> still changes to 1bpp.  It's my assumtion that this is a
    Jared> Screen Mode Detection routine gone amuck or some such... My
    Jared> graphics card is the ATI mach64 card (PCI), any ideas?

Each *application* has preferences associated with it.  If Marathon's
preferences say "use 1 bit per pixel", Executor will switch to 1 bpp
every time you run Marathon, regardless of what bpp was being used
before you ran it.  That's why saving the 256 color setting after
Marathon is already up is a good idea; that will assure that it starts
out in 8bpp from the beginning.  I hope this helps.  Good luck!

-Mat


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