Technical Q&As
The Apple Media Tool and Apple Media Tool Programming Environment products have been discontinued.
For more information check out: AMT/PE Discontinued.
AMT_PE 08 - Bit Depths and Device Drivers under Windows (1-Aug-95)
Q Can our 256-color AMT title work on a Windows machine with 65,000 colors? When
we try to run it, we get the error message:"This machine doesn't support 256 colors."
A Unfortunately, applications created with AMT insist on a 256-color video
driver, and Windows does not allow applications to change video drivers on the
fly. So if your title is already pressed and running off a CD, you need to
manually load a 256-color video driver before running your title. Go into
Windows Setup (in the Main program group), choose Change system settings from
the Options menu, and pick a display driver that supports 256 colors. Restart
Windows for the new driver to be loaded.
If you are using the AMT/Programming Environment and Microsoft Visual C and
don't mind rebuilding your project one more time, you can also use a modified
version of APPLICA_.C that eases the 256-color requirement to 256 or more
colors. Send email to Kate Adams (kate.adams@applelink.apple.com) to get a copy
of this file.
Note: A future version of AMT and AMT/PE will address this restriction.
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