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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Picasso II and a 256 colour WorkBench
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:21:46 GMT
- Organization: U.S.R.A/NRL
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- In article <1914.6651T1226T2755@cuci.nl>, michaelm@cuci.nl says...
- >
- >
- >Hello all,
- >
- >I've got a new Picasso II and I immediatly made my WorkBench
- >800x600 with 256 Colours.
- >Before my Picasso I had 724x566 with 8 colours, MWB style.
- >But now my icons are all purple, some remain ok however but very
- >few. :(
- >Also If I use the menus there is some graphic garbage were the
- >menu used to be displayed.
- >If I drag icons I get the same garbage.
- >Other screens have no problems like DirectoryOpus 4.12 CU version.
- >And Amosaic and IBrowse which I also have set to 256 colours work
- >with no problem.
- The workbench icons are 3-bit deep, the eight colors it uses are the
- first four and the last four. Get from aminet either MagicColors,
- XXXX, or MCP which will do this, MCP incorporates a lot of other
- "enhancements", also.
-
- >But the biggest downer is the fact that my MUI Screen for AmIRC,which
- >is only 8 colours, gets this weird character trashing on it :(
- >
- Find the picasso mailing list (majordomo@uga.umd.edu? - just my guess).
- Jumpers, autoconfig space, etc.
-
- >Apollo 2030 TurboCard 68030/25MHz 12MB FastRAM
- >Oktagon 2008 SCSI II Controller with 1GB Fujitsu HD
- >Picasso II with 2MB
- >MultiFace III with my modem connected to it.
- >A scanner interface for the Cameron Handy Scanner Typ 10(Greyscale)
- >And a Multivision 2000 FlickerFixer.
-
- Get an A3000 and forget all that.:)
-
-