[Coco] Windows 7 CoCo emulator blues the colors never appear correctly under Windows 7 in full screen

[Roy J Lores]

If you mean the author of VCC, he does not even have a webpage anymore so
locating him might be right next to impossible now I've seen patches using
BAT files for games that also have messed up palettes , it somehow corrects
the problem by disabling the start bar and just about everything and then
re-starting it when the game finishes but since VCC always start in Windowed
mode using it is most likely not recommended.

Guess we will have to wait until either the author ever updates VCC or some
new CoCo emulator that is Windows 7 compatible comes along it is too bad,
because Windows XP has only 2 more years at best before all support is
abandoned for it by Microsoft.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Robert Gault
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 3:42 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Windows 7 CoCo emulator blues the colors never appear
correctly under Windows 7 in full screen

Roy J Lores wrote:
> Let me try to explain this as it has nothing and I repeat nothing to 
> do with the RGB and Composite modes CoCo Emulators naturally have as 
> those modes work fine under Windows 7as long as you operate the 
> emulator in Window mode as opposed to Fullscreen mode.
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> It is in Fullscreen mode that one gets into serious trouble running 
> under Windows 7 with both color palettes messed up.
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> Now does anyone and I mean anyone runs VCC or MESS under Windows 7, 
> especially VCC and if so how have they managed to solve this problem?
>
>

Well to start, your problem has nothing to do with palette colors. What you
are describing is a lack of video compatibility of a program written for
DirectX 8 or 9 running on Windows 7 with uses a more recent DirectX version
that is not completely backwards compatible.

Steve Bjork has confirmed your Windows 7 VCC problem. I can report that it
does not occur under WinXP with DirectX 9.0c when VCC F11 is used. If you
can locate Joseph Forgione, you might be able to talk him into an update for
Windows 7. 
Short of that, there's not likely anything you can do.

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