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Re: Problems with Marathon
>>>>> "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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