16 colors?

SDL Development
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Sorry to bring up a question from years ago, but is there any chance that
SDL-based apps could run on a 16-color (yes, 4bpp) Windows 98 system?

Someone out there is trying to run Tux Paint on some old PCs at a school,
and apparently they can’t even push 256 colors. (Though I’ve asked them
to try tweaking with the resolution, to see if dropping to 640x480 gives
them a little more BPP breathing room.)

Thx!–
-bill!
bill at newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/

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iirc, support for this was added in libsdl-1.2.9 so you should give that
version a shot …
-mikeOn Monday 05 September 2005 06:49 pm, Bill Kendrick wrote:

Sorry to bring up a question from years ago, but is there any chance that
SDL-based apps could run on a 16-color (yes, 4bpp) Windows 98 system?

Someone out there is trying to run Tux Paint on some old PCs at a school,
and apparently they can’t even push 256 colors. (Though I’ve asked them
to try tweaking with the resolution, to see if dropping to 640x480 gives
them a little more BPP breathing room.)

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Any specific strings that I could search for in the source to find out
how to turn it on?> ----- Original Message -----

From: sdl-bounces+christianj=implicitnetworks.com@libsdl.org
[mailto:sdl-bounces+christianj=implicitnetworks.com at libsdl.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Frysinger
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 4:28 PM
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Cc: Bill Kendrick
Subject: Re: [SDL] 16 colors?

On Monday 05 September 2005 06:49 pm, Bill Kendrick wrote:

Sorry to bring up a question from years ago, but is there any chance
that
SDL-based apps could run on a 16-color (yes, 4bpp) Windows 98 system?

Someone out there is trying to run Tux Paint on some old PCs at a
school,
and apparently they can’t even push 256 colors. (Though I’ve asked
them
to try tweaking with the resolution, to see if dropping to 640x480
gives
them a little more BPP breathing room.)

iirc, support for this was added in libsdl-1.2.9 so you should give that

version a shot …
-mike

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Sorry to bring up a question from years ago, but is there any chance that
SDL-based apps could run on a 16-color (yes, 4bpp) Windows 98 system?

Someone out there is trying to run Tux Paint on some old PCs at a school,
and apparently they can’t even push 256 colors. (Though I’ve asked them
to try tweaking with the resolution, to see if dropping to 640x480 gives
them a little more BPP breathing room.)

I’ve never even seen a system like this.
What happens when Tux Paint is started?

-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment