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

[Julian Fry]

On 25 Sep 2017 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).

> 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.

Dave,

As others have said I think the screen size limit is imposed by RISC 
OS 4.39. Have you thought of soft loading 6.xx? Not sure if this would 
be possible with your version of VRPC but it is what I do and use 1920 
x 1080 ay 16M.


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Cheers

Julian Fry