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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > The following X-based add-ons won't work in 4-bit color
> >
> > xfreecell (cards go off the right edge - game may still be usable)
> > In 8-bit Xvesa the red kings appear blue.
>
> xfreecell works fine in 4-bit color.  Red is red, and
> black is black.  It is true that on a 640x480 screen
> you can put so many cards in a column that they run off
> the bottom of the screen, but that has no effect on the
> game.

My apologies.  The blue for red is what happens when I use 4-bit Xvesa 
with my STB Velocity 128 card, which is not very linux compatible.
I forget whether this happened in swm or icewm.

I checked and the delilinux links2 also won't work in 4-bit Xvesa tho it 
was compiled to work with 4-bit SVGAlib.  I guess BL2 would work better on 
my 12MB 486 with 4-bit or 8-bit color since it can use the delilinux Xvesa 
and links2, but BL3 can handle the PCMCIA modem there already.  Hard 
choice.  We might just not use that computer since it also has a 
persnickety floppy drive.

> > I think Steven compiled an Abiword for
> > BL2/BL1 - does it also refuse to work in 4-bit color?
>
> It's the same AbiWord executable.  The earlier package had
> more fonts, clipart and help.

Phooey.  I would hate to have to set up an X server just for use with a 
wordprocessor in order to type mono text.  Back to DOS WP51.


> Cheers,
> Steven
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