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- Subject: Re: Display Colours
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- To: Andrew <andrewj@tne.net.au>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 96 13:32 MST
- From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter)
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- >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew <andrewj@tne.net.au> writes:
-
- Andrew> I am wondering how many colours executor supports. in the
- Andrew> control panel, there are options for 16 and 24 bit colour,
- Andrew> but they are greyed out.
-
- Executor does not support those color depths. We put the buttons in
- the preferences panel in anticipation of maybe supporting them before
- Executor 2 hit "feature freeze", but we didn't end up having time. We
- will remove those misleading buttons from our preferences panel before
- Executor 2 ships.
-
- Andrew> I have a Matrox Millenium 4 mb WRAM video card, so I
- Andrew> should be able to access all the colour depths. Also, i
- Andrew> can't get executor to run at 800x600. The screen appears
- Andrew> in the wrong place and the mouse pointer leaves four
- Andrew> streams of garbage on the screen wherever it moves.
- Andrew> 1024x768 works fine though.
-
- That's very strange! I would guess a bug in the board's VBE
- implementation, but that seems like a pretty big bug for Matrox to let
- slip through. Hmmm. Do they have a web site where you can check for
- driver updates or anything?
-
- Andrew> I have not yet installed q12 - judging by the amount of
- Andrew> problems people have been reporting about it, i have not
- Andrew> been game to install it. You might have to release one
- Andrew> more patch before beta, Ardi...
-
- I think you should install q12 (perhaps saving a copy of your old
- "executor.exe" first to be safe). q12 fixes far more problems than it
- introduces.
-
- Andrew> Any help with the display problems would be greatly
- Andrew> appreciated.
-
- Unfortunately, I don't think we'll have time to track down your
- 800x600 problem remotely before Executor 2 ships. At least you can
- use 1024x768, so it doesn't seem critically important to fix it.
-
- -Mat
-
- P.S. I've heard that the Matrox Millenium has VBE 2.0 built in (which
- is very cool). Is that true? "executor -info" will tell you.
-
-