re: After Dark Disney Screen Saver Problem
Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Scott Baret
(3 messages posted)
I tried all of the color modes and I think it may be an incompatibility between my
computer's internal video and the software, with Windows 95 perhaps coming in the
middle of the two.
IBM was notorious for using proprietary equipment that wasn't compatible with the
"status quo" of the day. I'm guessing that is where the problem lies. I checked the
manual (yes, I still have it after all these years!) and I meet every requirement
in there including video.
If I pick up an old video card sometime I may try that in the IBM to see if it makes
a difference.
On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 5:11 pm, dhm wrote:
>
>Right click somewhere empty on the desktop and select Properties --> Settings.
> Find out what is the setting of your colors. 256 colors (aka 8 bit)? 32K colors
>(aka 16 bit)? The software may be expecting 32 bit color.
>
>Note that if you don't have enough memory for more than 256 colors your computer
>can slow to a crawl since it will be accessing the hard drive as virtual memory
every
>time you load a new screen.
>
>When my mother got her first Windows computer it had only 32MB and 256 colors.
It
>displayed a lot of things OK and some badly. I set it to 16 bit color and it slowed
>down. I called around the city and found a dealer who had that kind of memory at
>a reasonable price. It was the dealer who put the computer together! With 80MB
>in it it was OK. But on some sites parts of images still looked bad because they
>were intended as 32 bit images and with 16 bit it chose 256 best colors for each
>pane and some gently shaded parts had artifacts like layers of shelves.
>
>When I worked at a charity as a secretary I found their Win98 computer made of surplus
>parts was so slow, it could not access the internet as a practical matter. It had
>16 bit color and not enough memory. I reduced it to 256 colors which made the default
>cloudy sky desktop an ugly mess. I went home and composed a wallpaper of the charity's
>corporate logo in the 16 default colors and put that up. I tweaked the old machine
>till I had tripled its speed.
>
>Then the charity had a better year for donations and they got a new Dell with WinXP.
> And I was replaced as secretary for fear I was a dangerous hacker.
>
|
