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- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: STAR TREK: After Dark screen saver
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.211015.4821@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 02:10:15 GMT
- References: <24603@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <79120@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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- In article <79120@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gw18@prism.gatech.EDU (Greg Williams) writes:
- > Another problem I noticed is that you can't run Space and Planet Atlas if
- > your display is more than 256 colors. I'm currently running with 32,768, so
- > I can't use either of those two modules. Unfortunately, some of the desktop
- > colors and my wallpaper look terrible in 256 mode, so I just live without
- > those modules.
-
- The same is true of the original After Dark 2.0. The answer I received from
- Berkeley about this was "we don't know how to fix our code to work properly
- and we couldn't be bothered anyway". It seems they consider > 256 colors to
- be a minority they don't want to deal with. Well, all our our new systems are
- being installed with 1024x768 24-bit color because it's only about $250 more
- than the super VGA boards we were using. I've heard the same thing from other
- sites. Too bad Berkeley isn't interested in this rapidly expanding market seg-
- ment. This is especially odd as the 24-bit folks have proven that they will
- spend extra for a higher-quality product.
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
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