korfhage%UCLA-ATS@sri-unix.UUCP (01/12/84)
From: Willard Korfhage <korfhage@UCLA-ATS> While home for Christmas I played with the Microsoft Flight Simulator on the family PC XT. Unfortunately, though, it would not display in color, even though we have the standard IBM color graphics equipment and told the program that we had it. I have seen this in color on other systems, so what have we done wrong? Thanks, Willard Korfhage (korfhage@ucla-ats)
spoo@utcsrgv.UUCP (Suk Lee) (01/15/84)
If you read the instructions, buried some-
where in the text is that the program
won't run color in RGB mode (don't ask
me why), which the color board and
monitor use. What you've been seeing
is people running the PC on a composite
video monitor.
Anybody out there know why the thing
only runs on TV's?
From the pooped paws of:
Suk Lee
..!{decvax,linus,allegra,inhp4}!utcsrgv!spoonathan@orstcs.UUCP (01/19/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1533500:orstcs:8500010:000:495 orstcs!nathan Jan 15 17:22:00 1984 The wonderful folks at Microsoft (actually, "the wonderful folks that sold it to Microsoft") are using a trick to get color at higher resolution, that relies on "smearing" of dots smaller than the phosphor dots on a monitor. Unfortunately, it only works if you *don't* have an (otherwise superior) RGB monitor. Microsoft's crime is not in selling software like this, but in not telling you before you buy it. The solution is to get an RF modulator and run the game on your TV set, I guess.