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- >>>>> "Jared" == Jared Roberts <root@dontmailhere.cyberspace.com> writes:
-
- You didn't mention which version of Executor you've got; I assume it's
- 1.99o?
-
- Jared> I've read a few postings here about playing Marathon with
- Jared> Executor, but I just haven't been able to get this to work.
- Jared> I've tried both E/D and E/L, and both suffer from this
- Jared> strange problem where the screen goes into 1bit color mode,
- Jared> making the menus impossible to see.
-
- It sounds like the preferences for the app are wrong; set them to 256
- colors and hit "save" in the prefs box.
-
- Jared> I can use then prefs. panel to shift them back to 256 (in
- Jared> DOS anyway, my E/L ignores this at this point, I don't
- Jared> think it's accepting stuff from the keybd.), but the
- Jared> pallette is all wrong. I can then pull up the menus,
- Jared> change stuff, etc. Click on OK, and celebrate, becuase it
- Jared> fixed the palette, and things look awesome. Then I hit
- Jared> play, and it crashes. In E/D, I just get a DOS prompt, and
- Jared> E/L seg faults. (Or, if I stay in 1bit color, sometimes
- Jared> It'll quit back to the browser.) I've tried this both with
- Jared> and without refresh, and using various applzone sizes,
- Jared> including 12000 as suggested by a previous poster.
-
- Hmmm, that's strange. I haven't run Marathon myself so I don't know
- what to say. Make sure you've got the current Executor (1.99o) and
- the current Marathon. This may be related to your setting the depth
- from 1bpp to 8bpp after it starts.
-
- -Mat
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