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

[David J. Ruck]

On 25/09/17 11:25, Dave Symes 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).

The RISC PC models faithfully emulate the 2MB limit for VRAM, which will 
only allow 800x600 at 16M colours. You need to use the A7000 model, 
which can be configured to use more (main) memory for display, 
preferably enough so you can use the same resolution as the native screen.

Cheers
---David
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