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- From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
- Subject: Re: 256 Colors in WPS
- Message-ID: <168A3C0BD.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu>
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- References: <Bxx6Bu.23M@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:42:17 GMT
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- In article <Bxx6Bu.23M@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel) writes:
-
- >I hope this question hasn't been asked a million times...... but I'll ask it
- >anyways....
- >
- > Is there a way to get 256 colors as a background in the WPS... I have
- >installed the latest service pack( I ordered it from IBM), I have run dspinstl,
- >and loaded the TSENG SVGA drivers in 1024 x 768 x 256 and the 640 x 480 x 256
- >and rebooted... Then typed svga on in both the dos full screen and os2 full
- >screen and no go. What I want to do is have a SVGA .Gif picture converted
- >to .BMP mode and displayed on the screen as a background in the Work Place
- >Shell. I used gif2bmp, and the latest vpic to do the conversions. I can view
- >the .bmp in 256 colors using vpic but when I put it as the background it only
- >comes up in 16 colors!!!!! Is there a program out there that will fix this.
- >Or did I do something wrong......
- >
- > Thanks
- >
- > Dave V
- >
- Try the background bitmaps from software.watson.ibm.com on pub/os2/mics
- The files are called BGA1BMPS.ZIP and BGA2BMPS.ZIP. Just use these
- files to test whether your OS/2 config can display them in 256 colors. If
- so I would suspect the files that you made. These bitmaps from IBM look
- great on my XGA display as a background.
- Mike Long
- Iowa State University
-