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- > I've read a few postings here about playing Marathon with Executor, but I
- > just haven't been able to get this to work. I've tried both E/D and E/L,
- > and both suffer from this strange problem where the screen goes into 1bit
- > color mode, making the menus impossible to see. I can use then prefs.
- > panel to shift them back to 256 (in DOS anyway, my E/L ignores this at
- > this point, I don't think it's accepting stuff from the keybd.), but the
- > pallette is all wrong. I can then pull up the menus, change stuff, etc.
- > Click on OK, and celebrate, becuase it fixed the palette, and things look
- > awesome. Then I hit play, and it crashes. In E/D, I just get a DOS
- > prompt, and E/L seg faults. (Or, if I stay in 1bit color, sometimes It'll
- > quit back to the browser.) I've tried this both with and without
- > refresh, and using various applzone sizes, including 12000 as suggested
- > by a previous poster.
-
- Greetings Timeless Dragon,
-
- Maraton works fine with my computer (486-66, Linux 1.3.4, S3-864).
- Best get E/L 1.99o and use it with 256 colors. Switch the refresh to
- 10 - 20 and start Executor with no options.
-
- Hope it helps. Peace,
-
- Zu Ylem Dragon
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- Zu Ylem Dragon
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-
- Gernot Bauer
-
- University of Linz, Austria
- gbauer@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
- gernot@pizza.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
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