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Re: 256 Colours
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Date: 
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:43:31 GMT
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:21:48 GMT, John de Giorgio <degiorgio@ilo.org>
wrote:

> 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 colours.
> Any ideas as to how this can be avoided please?

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



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  Re: 256 Colours
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: 256 Colours
 
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 (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  256 Colours
 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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