it does not even go into 24 or 32 bpp i get the BSoD. isnt palette cycling bad programming practice?

ok running certain games that are text based (i could probubly find the names of the games if you need) when i run them for example there is suppose to be green text on the center of the screen and since hercules is monochrome the text is gray but the cursor is green and if the text is suppose to be …

why dont they make a utility to keep certain windows from messing with the windows palette

you see there is no problem the colors are correct and evreything runs but it changes the palette evreytime something in the dosbox changes the palette

that would sure make it easy to transfer data between modern and old apps woldnt it 😀

dosbox works fine its just the whole windows desktop changes colors along with the colors in the dosbox

i use atleast 3 - 4 programs that are from the early 90's that requires 256 Color mode and happen to need dosbox too i have ALOT of old programs

windows vista and 98

dosbox doesnt just do it when you switch to it it does it CONSTANTLY.

windows 7 bug ? very bad in vista moderate in xp slightly less yet in 98

i didnt say it applied to win 3.1 i mean if dosbox worked on win 3.1 i have reasons to run windows in 256 color mode and if the bug is in dosbox or SDL it should be resovled if it isnt then just blame microsoft

bug in palette anitmated games steps to reproduce: pick any windows version and any video card force windows to go into 256 color mode download the game three (http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/13h.htm) put dosbox in VGA only mode start three and watch evreything in windows change …

it applies to all windows that support 256color palette management (pretty much sence win 3.1)

i know this topic is super old but win 3.1 looks better in 16 vs 256 because it does some dithering in 16 so you have a choice of 16 dithered or 20 undithered you take your pick p.s. i cant get windows 3.1 to display ing 65536 colors in dosbox

it applys to windows and its technically not a dosbox bug but me an the SDL team agree that dosbox should not change the hardware windows palette in 256 C mode because games that palette animate freeze windows why dont you atleast read the link

when i have windows in 256 color mode (sometimes i need to) and when using dosbox it changes the hardware palette and if a game palette animates windows freezes the SDL team told me to send you to here http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772

that I had gotten rid of 5 months ago. sarcasm { real smart }