Re: VirtualBox (was: if then else - but why is there no =?windows-1255?b?kWVsc2WS?= in colorForth?)

Nick Maroudas <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:53:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.colorforth
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quoting Jason Kemp <[email protected]>:

>... " Hi Dave
>... " >> Does this work with the previous editions of
>... " CF?  
[snip]
>... " Well, it didn’t seem to like CF05 at all.  Just
>... " a black screen.  I tried 
>... " CF2a and that booted but the video is wrong and
>... " virtualbox gives a 
>... " warning about running in 24bit colour (but this
>... " version is supposed to 
>... " be 32!) 
>... " Jason
>... " 
 
Nick here: 24bit color actually (rgb is 3*8 as you can
see in Josh's disassembly of his "color32").  I don't
like to be pedantic, so didn't point this out until now
- but your exclamation mark indicates that (in the
finicky virtual world) even a little misinformation can
cause real distress to someone who is being plagued by
the bugs of software incompatibility. You're in good
company - the Okad team also call it 32bit color.

Caritas,

Nick 


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