On 5 Oct 98, at 9:02, Allan Skillman wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> 
> > Talking of Sim Coupe, ...........
> 
> The Last UNIX release I made was probably 0.72, which is pretty old. 
> Unfortunately DOS versions are so fiddly to do I never got around to 
> releasing a newer version. Hopefully with Simon taking up the challenge
> on a Win32 version I might be able to get back to the UNIX version.
> 
> Back to your problem. Are you using a 16 or 24 bits per pixel display?
> SimCoupe works best with an 8bit display. It does have support for the
> higher display depths, but I'm not sure whether they work very well. At
> the time I only had access to machines with 8bit displays.

As it happens, i am using 16bit colour, i'll try it in 8-bit and see, i 
get a simmilar problem trying to run xquake.
It's likely to be something i'm not doing, i've only just got into 
Linux, and as you do, only reading half the docs :)

Thanks.

-- 
Dean Liversidge

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