nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) (03/02/91)
I've been using screenpeace on my 386 system at home for several months now.
A couple weeks ago, I noticed that screenpeace seemed to have stopped
working, it seemed to be just changing the screen to black but not drawing
any boxes/shapes in random colors like it used to. Upon further
examination, it became clear that it IS drawing boxes of random size and
shape, but that MOST of the boxes/shapes are being drawn in BLACK!
Occasionally I will see a box being drawn in pink or yellow, but lots of
black boxes get drawn on top, and eventually the screen becomes all black.
I suppose I must have changed something, but I have no idea what!
Any ideas you can give me will be appreciated.
This only happens with the spx programs that draw random boxes/shapes, and
the one that draws kaledioscope-like line drawings. Other spx's that draw
mazes, or bounce a ball, or drop snowflakes, or fly a dragon kite, all work
without any apparent problem. I could just disable the offending ones, but
I suspect this is a tip-off that something's gone wrong, and I'd like to
correct the problem instead of merely masking it.
Thanks in advance for your replies/followups.
Oh, this is running on a 386DX with QEMM 5.11, in enhanced mode, using a
ET4000 clone board in 1024x768x256 mode.
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst) (03/03/91)
In article <Mar.2.13.12.14.1991.4709@dorm.rutgers.edu>, silk@dorm.rutgers.edu (Silk Merchant) writes: > nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes: >>I've been using screenpeace on my 386 system at home for several months now. >>A couple weeks ago, I noticed that screenpeace seemed to have stopped >>working, it seemed to be just changing the screen to black but not drawing >>any boxes/shapes in random colors like it used to. Upon further >>examination, it became clear that it IS drawing boxes of random size and >>shape, but that MOST of the boxes/shapes are being drawn in BLACK! >>Occasionally I will see a box being drawn in pink or yellow, but lots of >>black boxes get drawn on top, and eventually the screen becomes all black. >>I suppose I must have changed something, but I have no idea what! > >>Thanks in advance for your replies/followups. > > This sounds very familiar. My screen peace will no longet do the aquarium > spx. The screen just goes black. I assume there are black fish swimming around, > but of course I can't see them. > > I'm running on a 386-25 with svga. If you get any replies, tell me. Thanks. Have you tried setting the 'Realize color table' option? When I ran SP without it, I got mostly black drawing on the screen, but after this option was checked, it worked normally. I believe this is only necessary in 256 color mode. My old 256 color board did not do this, I think. Also, SP doesn't remember that you set this option, and so you need to reset it every time you run it. -Bryon daly@omega.ecs.umass.edu
silk@dorm.rutgers.edu (Silk Merchant) (03/03/91)
nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes: >I've been using screenpeace on my 386 system at home for several months now. >A couple weeks ago, I noticed that screenpeace seemed to have stopped >working, it seemed to be just changing the screen to black but not drawing >any boxes/shapes in random colors like it used to. Upon further >examination, it became clear that it IS drawing boxes of random size and >shape, but that MOST of the boxes/shapes are being drawn in BLACK! >Occasionally I will see a box being drawn in pink or yellow, but lots of >black boxes get drawn on top, and eventually the screen becomes all black. >I suppose I must have changed something, but I have no idea what! >Thanks in advance for your replies/followups. This sounds very familiar. My screen peace will no longet do the aquarium spx. The screen just goes black. I assume there are black fish swimming around, but of course I can't see them. I'm running on a 386-25 with svga. If you get any replies, tell me. Thanks. DAT silk@dorm.rutgers.edu
kentfo@polari.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt) (03/04/91)
In article <12666.27cfd083@ecs.umass.edu> daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst) writes: >Have you tried setting the 'Realize color table' option? > ... >Also, SP doesn't remember that you set this option, and so you need to reset it >every time you run it. Edit your win.ini file to set "realize colors" permanently: find the [Screen Peace] entry, and change "Realize Colors=n" to "Realize Colors=y". -- Kent Forschmiedt ... kentfo@polari ... uw-beaver!sumax!polari!kentfo