[Virtualacorn-list] VRPC RO 4.39 and 16 Million colours

[Alan Adams]

In message <56810e73addave at triffid.co.uk>
          Dave Symes <dave at triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> Good day folks.
> I'm setting up a VRPC-DL for Fay and nothing I try will get this (Naughty
> word) RISC OS 4.39 to do a sizeable C16M colour screen mode (Always
> defaults to 800 x 600 C16M  which is a bit useless for a Widescreen
> monitor).

It sounds as though you don't have enough (virtual) video memory. On 
VRPC it's set in the model.cfg file if I recall correctly.

I think one of the VRPC updates allowed the larger memory to be used. 
I don't know whether that would apply to the DL version.

> Advice given on ...misc has been tried along with some fiddles of my own,
> but it still fails to give a C16M screen display on a larger screen mode
> (32K is the largest, aside from the pathetic 800 x 600 C16M).

> On my VRPC-DL install (I have two paid for copies) I'm running RISC OS
> 6.20 and using a larger screen mode in C16M  without any problems.

> The one I'm using for her setup is a bit smaller and it fails to do C16M.

> I've also put into the 4.39 Monitor MDF the config used to give
> me...1920x1080 in C16M on my RISC OS 6.20, but that also fails to render
> in C16M under 4.39.

> I'm totally out of ideas.
> Anyone here have any useful suggestions.
> Thanks

> Dave



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