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	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2009-9-27 @ 02:33 am
smeezekitty Idiot Joined: 2009-09-26 Posts: 21	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

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2009-9-27 @ 09:36 am
Neville Oldbie Joined: 2004-08-09 Posts: 765	Have you tried using any of the Tseng settings / drivers? I noticed that in v0.73 Tseng are capable of some modes S3 Trio isn't, such as 1024x768x256c

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2009-9-27 @ 07:15 pm
ih8registrations Oldbie Joined: 2003-07-25 Posts: 880	The default 3.11 svga driver works with et4000 or there's a patch/replacement driver to work with VESA, which works with the dosbox default s3.

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2009-11-28 @ 03:57 pm
madcrow Newbie Joined: 2007-08-06 Posts: 37	What's all this about the S3 emulation not being capable of 1024x768x256c? I'm using the standard 0.73 S3 emulations, with the S3 drivers linked from the Win3.x tutorial and I'm using 1024x768x256c in Windows 3.11. Am I just lucky or are some people just plain stuck in the past?

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2009-12-01 @ 07:52 pm
HunterZ Friendly Neighbourhood Moderator Joined: 2003-01-31 Posts: 5533 Location: Seattle	I'm pretty sure I've been able to achieve 64k (16-bit) colors in Win3.11 under DOSBox using S3 drivers. Some games require running in 256 (8-bit) color modes though due to palette manipulation effects.

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-19 @ 06:12 pm
arromdee3 Newbie Joined: 2003-12-01 Posts: 29	To the person who managed to get 64K colors, exactly what settings did you use? I tried Dosbox 0.74, machine=svga_et4000, and in Windows setup, selecting "S3 868 1.41B5 640x480 64K colors". Trying to do this failed and a second Windows setup told me it couldn't initialize the display; using VGA succeeded. Is Windows 3.11 specifically required and not 3.1? I am trying to run the Windows 3.1 version of Daedelus Encounter, which uses 64K colors.

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-19 @ 07:01 pm
arromdee3 Newbie Joined: 2003-12-01 Posts: 29	Never mind. Let's see what happens when I use 864 as I'm supposed to....

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-19 @ 09:52 pm
kolano Member Joined: 2010-12-26 Posts: 254	One thing to consider would be that certain DOSBox builds support setting a VGA memory size. Using one of these builds with more memory than specified in the default configuration may enable higher resolution/color-modes to be utilized. Unsure regarding failures of 8b color modes though, as they should fit in default memory up to 1024x768 without issue.

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-19 @ 10:11 pm
leileilol It is so messy here... Time for me to leave!! Joined: 2006-12-16 Posts: 4115	Why on earth are you using a Tseng video card with a S3 driver? _________________ On the virge of being a rendition of a raged voodoo savage with a bundle of TNT leading a revolution into an apocalypse. At speed warp 5, mindnumbed from the geforce

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-20 @ 07:16 am
arromdee3 Newbie Joined: 2003-12-01 Posts: 29	Because I didn't have any documentation that told me that wasn't the right card to use? Anyway, I was able to install it (using the 864141b5.zip driver) by installing as VGA and then doing setup after that to set it to S3 at 64K colors. It refused to install as S3 directly. This still gives me problems, however: 1) Dosbox won't scale the screen. In particular, if I select a 64K color mode or a 32K color mode, and run Dosbox in fullscreen, it gives me a tiny 640x480 section in the middle of the 1280x1024 monitor. The Windows splash screen will properly scale (by a factor of 2). Dos games will also properly scale. Windows will scale if I choose VGA or 256 color S3, but it won't scale if I choose 64K color S3. It looks strange when I start Windows because the splash screen comes up, properly scaled, and then Windows itself comes up without scaling. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with Windows at all--does Dosbox scale with 64K color mode at all? Relevant Dosbox settings are: fulldouble=true fullresolution=1280x1024 windowresolution=640x480 output=overlay ... machine=svga_s3 ... aspect=true scaler=normal2x 2) Playing Daedalus Encounter requites Quicktime. It comes with Quicktime 2.01. Quicktime 2.01 looks like it's installing, then tells me that isnatllation is incomplete and I should delete any files that were copied. Checking windows\system shows me that even though it gave me a progress bar showing that files were copied, no files were actually copied. I see that someone else was able to install this under http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?p=133798 and am wondering what I did differently. I finally managed to install it by getting a newer version (2.12)--for some reason it gave me problems once, but when I started from scratch I was able to get it to work with the game. 3) I now get the same problem described in the earlier message: errors about mmSound.

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-20 @ 08:08 am
Dominus DOSBox Moderator Joined: 2002-10-03 Posts: 4632 Location: Vienna	Quote: Because I didn't have any documentation that told me that wasn't the right card to use? using the driver of one brand with another is just plain not thinking or would you use an AMD graphics driver for a Nvidia graphics card? The windows .1 dosbox guide does mention which driver to use for each emulated graphics card. I'll remember to write something about the quicktime installer... Scaler: have you used forced scaling? _________________ Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox 60 seconds guide to DOSBox DOSBox SVN snapshot for OS X (10.4-10.8 ppc/intel) codesigned for gatekeeper

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-20 @ 10:44 am
Gamecollector Member Joined: 2010-10-06 Posts: 492	arromdee3 wrote: Dosbox scale with 64K color mode at all? With output=overlay - scaling in Win31 with S3 is 256-color modes only. Use output=ddraw or openglnb. Known trouble.

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-20 @ 04:50 pm
arromdee3 Newbie Joined: 2003-12-01 Posts: 29	Quote: using the driver of one brand with another is just plain not thinking How was I supposed to know that the driver wasn't for the same brand? Chipsets have different names from companies all the time, so it wasn't an obvious mistake. It was entirely plausible that the whole set from s3 to tseng was a single family of cards with different names. It turned out not to be true, but given that I know nothing about these cards it was a completely reasonable assumption to make. Yeah, I could have eventually found out by Googling it, but if I googled every single thing I didn't understand in the configuration I'd never get anywhere--it's not practical to not make at least some assumptions. Remember that not everyone knows this stuff. [/quote]

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-20 @ 05:44 pm
arromdee3 Newbie Joined: 2003-12-01 Posts: 29	Quote: Use output=ddraw or openglnb. Known trouble. I am running under Linux. No ddraw. openglnb (and opengl) don't help the problem.

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-20 @ 07:42 pm
Dominus DOSBox Moderator Joined: 2002-10-03 Posts: 4632 Location: Vienna	If it's not knowledge than think. why would the dosbox bother to emulate the same card and use different machine names for it? Anyway have you tried to force the scaler?

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-20 @ 08:33 pm
arromdee3 Newbie Joined: 2003-12-01 Posts: 29	Um, they might bother to emulate several cards that are variations. We emulate Tandy and PCJr, for instance, and the names "Tandy" and "PCJr" don't sound any more alike than "S3" and "Tseng".

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-20 @ 09:13 pm
Dominus DOSBox Moderator Joined: 2002-10-03 Posts: 4632 Location: Vienna	Neither is a card and pcjr games do not necessarily run in tandy mode. And even it werethe case of variations, using the driver of one or the other is still thoughtless.

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-21 @ 07:23 pm
jal Member Joined: 2004-01-02 Posts: 485 Location: Amersfoort, Netherlands	Dominus, stop flaming. The guy made a mistake, no harm done. Let's not get off-topic please. JAL

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-22 @ 01:24 pm
Dominus DOSBox Moderator Joined: 2002-10-03 Posts: 4632 Location: Vienna	Nah, too much fun going off topic. At least I tried two times to give advice with the forced scaler... _________________ Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox 60 seconds guide to DOSBox DOSBox SVN snapshot for OS X (10.4-10.8 ppc/intel) codesigned for gatekeeper

	Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours :: 2011-5-22 @ 05:22 pm
arromdee3 Newbie Joined: 2003-12-01 Posts: 29	I managed to fix the sound problem by setting the sound to sb16 and installing the SB16/AWE32 drivers from Creative (the SB16 drivers that are bundled with the DOS drivers do not work), so I've now got it more working than the guy in the other thread. The forced scaler, needless to say, doesn't help, so it looks like my only option is to wait for a new Dosbox that fixes the bug (or use 640x480 and put up with the screen stretching that you get when you tell most 1280x1024 monitors to go into 640x480 mode). Is this something that is likely to get fixed?

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