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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA23868 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 28 Dec 1994 11:38:36 -0800 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id MAA24216; Wed, 28 Dec 1994 12:40:26 -0700 Received: from gwar.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0rN45d-000Ye8C; Wed, 28 Dec 94 12:31 MST Received: by gwar.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0rN45d-000GTSC; Wed, 28 Dec 94 12:31 MST Message-Id: <m0rN45d-000GTSC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 94 12:31 MST From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) To: Kurt R Glaesemann <kurtg@iastate.edu> Subject: Re: 1.99f problems In-Reply-To: <9412281615.AA02599@las3.iastate.edu> References: <9412281615.AA02599@las3.iastate.edu> cc: executor@nacm.com Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "kurtg" == Kurt R Glaesemann <kurtg@iastate.edu> writes: kurtg> With installing 1.99f/DOS (deleted all previous files) I kurtg> discovered that my gateway 2000 496 monitor would no longer kurtg> do 256 colors. Interesting. We completely revamped our graphics support for 1.99f to throw away a third party graphics library we were using and talk directly to the VESA driver (which seems to be noticeably faster). If you don't have a VESA driver, Executor allows you to use <= 16 colors in standard VGA modes. Our old graphics library wouldn't allow you to use some non-VESA boards at all, even in 16 color VGA mode. Please bear with us as we try to battle through the nightmare that is PC video board drivers. That's one of the reasons we are shipping experimental releases. What sort of graphics board do you have? Does it claim to be VESA? I don't recall if we've mentioned it, but with 1.99f under DOS you can try "executor -bpp 4 -size 1024x768", "executor -bpp 8 -size 924x615", etc. It tries hard to support whatever screen sizes you throw at it, although your setup will of course look best if you choose a screen size exactly matching one your video board supports (otherwise Executor will center the Mac screen in the SVGA screen). I'll look into the 2 bpp problems you mentioned; they should only crop up with non-VESA boards. Thanks for the bug reports; these are how Executor gets better. -Mat