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Re: Picasso II and a 256 colour WorkBench

#8819
From: Greg Jung
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 19:21
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In article <1914.6651T1226T2755@cuci.nl>, michaelm@cuci.nl says...
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>Hello all,
>
>I've got a new Picasso II and I immediatly made my WorkBench
>800x600 with 256 Colours.
>Before my Picasso I had 724x566 with 8 colours, MWB style.
>But now my icons are all purple, some remain ok however but very
>few. :(
>Also If I use the menus there is some graphic garbage were the
>menu used to be displayed.
>If I drag icons I get the same garbage.
>Other screens have no problems like DirectoryOpus 4.12 CU version.
>And Amosaic and IBrowse which I also have set to 256 colours work
>with no problem.
  The workbench icons are 3-bit deep, the eight colors it uses are the
first four and the last four.  Get from aminet either MagicColors,
XXXX, or MCP which will do this, MCP incorporates a lot of other
"enhancements", also.

>But the biggest downer is the fact that my MUI Screen for AmIRC,which
>is only 8 colours, gets this weird character trashing on it :(
>
  Find the picasso mailing list (majordomo@uga.umd.edu? - just my guess).
  Jumpers, autoconfig space, etc.  

>Apollo 2030 TurboCard 68030/25MHz 12MB FastRAM
>Oktagon 2008 SCSI II Controller with 1GB Fujitsu HD
>Picasso II with 2MB
>MultiFace III with my modem connected to it.
>A scanner interface for the Cameron Handy Scanner Typ 10(Greyscale)
>And a Multivision 2000 FlickerFixer.

 Get an A3000 and forget all that.:)
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Subject: Re: Picasso II and a 256 colour WorkBench
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