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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview and SVGA
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Date: 17 Feb 90 00:36:55 GMT
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In article <4437@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) writes:
}A question:  320x200x256 screens don't come out right on my display when
}running things under DV.  The resolution is right, and the picture is
}preserved, but it seems to be working with too few colors; many of them are
}mapped to black rather than the correct color.  This doesn't happen in SVGA
}modes...why is this?

Have you told DV that the program uses graphics and uses its own colors?
(turning the latter on tells DV not to mess with the palette)

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