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- From: sysop@sweetdreams.lahn.de (Matthias Bethke)
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- Subject: Re: Transparent pointer shadow???
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 00:23:22 +0000
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- On Tue 30-Jan-1996 6:58 David Ingebretsen wrote:
- DI> Having installed my new Cybervision64 card, I find that my
- DI> pointer shadow is transparent. Why?
-
- That's a limitation of the S3 VGA chip. It has only 2 sprite colors plus one
- "invert background" color.
-
- DI> Also, now that I can have a full color WorkBench, how does one
- DI> go about optimizing the screen palette? Right now, msny of my
- DI> icons are pretty ugly.
-
- Using MagicWB? On any screen with more than 8 colors you need the
- MagicWB-Demon that comes with the package.
-
- ttyl!
- Matthias
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