Message-ID: <01BC690A.A38F53C0@ppp-9.ts-7.hck.idt.net> From: Amit Kumar To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: DirectX -- ugh Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:43:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Morris [SMTP:b52g AT usa DOT net] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 9:59 PM To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: DirectX -- ugh While on the subject of Direct X, did you know that it isn't possible to have Falcon 4 and Sonic the Hedgehog on the same machine? Both these are pure Win95 apps that use DirectX. Sonic the Hedgehog cacks itself if the display mode is not set to 256 colours. If it is more than 256 colours it still dies. On the other hand, Falcon 4 needs 65536 colours.. I've never tried it though. It's faintly possible it will run with 256 and dither them, but I doubt this. In DOS, we can just change the screen mode and be done with it. But in win95 you will have to find the display controls, change them and cold boot the machine to change video mode. Win95 is an abomination. Most video card manufactures provide utilities for changing the # of colors on the fly(the way you can change screan resolution, with out a cold boot). Microsoft also provides a QuickRes(part of power tools).