 | | 256 Colours —John de Giorgio
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| | | Has anyone been able to get rid of the annoying message concerning 256 colours? More to the point, every time I exit the Mindstorms software, my system colours are set at 256 colours and I have to change back to my original setting of 32 bit (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: 256 Colours —Keith Miller
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| | | | | Yeah. me too! it's annoying. ----- Original Message ----- From: John de Giorgio <degiorgio@ilo.org> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 8:21 AM Subject: 256 Colours (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: 256 Colours —Marcus Fischer Mellbin
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| | | | | (...) I never change to 256 colours and it works great. Good luck. Marcus --- Marcus Fischer Mellbin E-mail: marcus-NO-SPAM-AT-fi...ellbin.com (URL) If you like my Lego site you can vote for it here: (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: 256 Colours —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) The best way to handle the problem is to send polite, but firm, e-mail to the publisher and developer about the stupid technical blunder they made in their fine software. And start using NQC. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: 256 Colours —Luis Villa
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| | | | | | | (...) Amen! (...) If you are going to go that far, you might as well switch to Linux, X, emacs, and LegOS. I certainly don't have any color limitation problems with that setup :) In fact, 2-color B&W seems to work without any error messages at (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: 256 Colours —Mario Ferrari
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| | | | | | In lugnet.robotics, Steve Bliss writes: <snip> (...) Getting rid of the 256 colors problem being the minor of the benefits you get if you start using and NQC + RcxCC... Mario (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: 256 Colours —Michael Aaron Finch
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| | | | (...) John, i don't know how to avoid this message, but to minimize the inconvenience, i put a shortcut to "display" at my desktop so i can go straight to the color settings. Goblintrain (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: 256 Colours —Michael Nickasch
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| | | | the problem with that is you have to reboot most of the time, so the solution is to get the freeware from microsoft (i think) called PowerTools 98 or actually 95, included is a piece of software called quickres that allows you to make changes to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: 256 Colours —Chris Hollenbeck
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| | | | I believe the product you are looking for is PowerToys. I don't see a need to change the colors unless performance is greatly affected, so just ignore the message. Sorry if this was already said, I just don't want to read all of the posts. (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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