Re: games only in 256 color in win95

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From: jo... John Robert Williams
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:00

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Julian Suen (js...@orion.sfsu.edu) wrote:
> all win95 games require you to run in 256 color mode, is there a way to run
> them in true color modes? i have a ATI winturbo card, and using the win95
> build-in drivers. 

Game are traditionally written to use 256 color for various reasons, and 
even if you could run Windows in a truecolor mode, you wouldn't want to, 
beause the game is still written for 256 colors, and using a non-256 
color video mode will hurt the game's performance.

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Date: 1995/09/19
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