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

[Arthur Flexser]

Of course a workaround would be to go to the Control Panel under
Display and set the screen saver to not kick in until 9999 minutes
have elapsed or some such.  (Or just right click on the desktop and
select Properties.)

Art

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Roy J Lores <cyberpunk at prtc.net> wrote:
> Resizing and Maximizing a window to fill the screen and actually using a
> full screen are 2 very different things as I've said the modes and colors
> work alright in Windowed mode it's in fullscreen mode which can only be done
> by pressing [F11] key that things go wrong and if anything can be done about
> that and yes I'm using the latest version of VCC. The reasons for preferring
> full screen to a window are that if you are playing a game with the
> Joystick/gamepad under fullscreen the screensaver won't go active on you
> like it would on Windowed mode.
>
> For what you tell me you never use fullscreen and instead only run it on
> Windows mode which works great until the screensaver kicks in.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of John Orwen
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:47 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,
>
>
> Are you using VCC1.42 ?
>
> How are you entering the Fullscreen ?
> are you using an F-key or the re-sizing button on the top window bar ?
>
> Because of vision issues I use the fullscreen in Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
> and don't have the problems you are describing.  I use the rgb mode in
> config and have the allow re-sizing button checked.  When the emulator is
> started I just click on the re-sizing button to go to fullscreen and
> everything works exactly the same as in the normal window mode of the
> emulator.
>
> If you are using an F-key to enter fullscreen, instead check allow re-sizing
> in config and then just click on the re-sizing button on the top bar of
> emulator window and see what that does for you.
>
> John N0GFB
>
>
> On 1/28/2012 10:28 AM, 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?
>>
>>
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