Re: Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 is incompatible with today's graphics cards!

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From: Raymond Martineau
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:41

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On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 03:42:02 +0100, Asfand Yar Qazi <ay0305@qazi.f2s.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is it true that Rollercoaster tycoon does not work with the current 
>generation's graphics cards?
>
>Here is the entry copy-pasted from the readme.txt file:
>
>RollerCoaster Tycoon2 must be played on a video card capable of 
>640x480 screen resolution at a bit depth setting of 256 bits.

That's 256 colours, not 256 bits.  

In any case, it's nothing Windows XP compatability mode can't fix (assuming
that it does encounter a problem).

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