[Coco] Windows 7 CoCo emulator blues the colors never appear correctly under Windows 7 in full screen

[Roy J Lores]

I have and MR Bjork also tried it along with all of the compatibility
options to no avail. So I guess we will have to wait until either the author
of VCC updates it if ever or along the line somewhere in the future a
Windows 7 emulator for the CoCo is developed.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Rob Rosenbrock
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 4:59 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Windows 7 CoCo emulator blues the colors never appear
correctly under Windows 7 in full screen

Have you tried it under XP mode?

On Jan 28, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Roy J Lores wrote:

> If you mean the author of VCC, he does not even have a webpage anymore 
> so locating him might be right next to impossible now I've seen 
> patches using BAT files for games that also have messed up palettes , 
> it somehow corrects the problem by disabling the start bar and just 
> about everything and then re-starting it when the game finishes but 
> since VCC always start in Windowed mode using it is most likely not
recommended.
> 
> Guess we will have to wait until either the author ever updates VCC or 
> some new CoCo emulator that is Windows 7 compatible comes along it is 
> too bad, because Windows XP has only 2 more years at best before all 
> support is abandoned for it by Microsoft.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Robert Gault
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 3:42 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Windows 7 CoCo emulator blues the colors never 
> appear correctly under Windows 7 in full screen
> 
> Roy J Lores wrote:
>> Let me try to explain this as it has nothing and I repeat nothing to 
>> do with the RGB and Composite modes CoCo Emulators naturally have as 
>> those modes work fine under Windows 7as long as you operate the 
>> emulator in Window mode as opposed to Fullscreen mode.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It is in Fullscreen mode that one gets into serious trouble running 
>> under Windows 7 with both color palettes messed up.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Now does anyone and I mean anyone runs VCC or MESS under Windows 7, 
>> especially VCC and if so how have they managed to solve this problem?
>> 
>> 
> 
> Well to start, your problem has nothing to do with palette colors. 
> What you are describing is a lack of video compatibility of a program 
> written for DirectX 8 or 9 running on Windows 7 with uses a more 
> recent DirectX version that is not completely backwards compatible.
> 
> Steve Bjork has confirmed your Windows 7 VCC problem. I can report 
> that it does not occur under WinXP with DirectX 9.0c when VCC F11 is 
> used. If you can locate Joseph Forgione, you might be able to talk him 
> into an update for Windows 7.
> Short of that, there's not likely anything you can do.
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