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

[Rob Rosenbrock]

Have you tried it under XP mode?

On Jan 28, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Roy J Lores wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It is in Fullscreen mode that one gets into serious trouble running 
>> under Windows 7 with both color palettes messed up.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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