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

[Rob Rosenbrock]

What?

How is extending the delay 'not recommendable by any stretch of the imagination?' I'm not sure I read that right.

True, it presents more of a drain on the battery. But your objective would do the same.

On Jan 29, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Roy J Lores wrote:

> Since what I have is a laptop that would involve changing the configuration
> to that of a tower which is not recommendable by any stretch of the
> imagination.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Arthur Flexser
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 2:21 AM
> 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
> 
> 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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