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Re: Anyone have success running Swoop from Ambrosia Software?



>>>>> "Trev" == Trev  <trevoreb@sfo.com> writes:

    Trev> The game comes up with the message requires 640x480 pixels
    Trev> in 256 colors

    Trev> I thought executor ran in this setting buy default.

I've played Swoop several times under Executor.

Executor tries to use 640x480@256, but sometimes Executor/DOS thinks
640x480@256 is not available so it selects a different video mode.
For example, if you don't have a VESA-compatible video driver, you'll
only be able to get 640x480@16 (plain VGA).  One way to tell if this
is happening is to bring up the alt-shift-5 preferences panel and see
if 256 colors is selected (or at least available).  If 256 colors is
dimmed out, you're almost certainly stuck in "plain vga" mode.
"executor -info" will also print out some information about the video
driver it detects.

On some systems, an Executor 2.0 beta 1 bug causes Executor to use no
video modes larger than 640x400.  This has been fixed at ARDI but the
fix is not yet public.  I've only seen this happen on systems using
SciTech Display Doctor 5.2, but the bug could (in theory) cause this
to happen even without SDD 5.2.

I hope this helps.

-Mat


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