UNIX downloads? (with Windows answers)

Steve Gilbert steven.l.gilbert at lmco.com
Tue Apr 10 21:19:45 UTC 2001



Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Steve Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > >
> > > What happens if you switch the display depth (in world menu - appearance)?
> >
> > The colors basically stay the same, the mouse ears stay squared, and the
> > characters become readable once I get to a 32 bit display depth, less
> > than that and all of the text is so fuzzy that I can't hardly read it.
> 
> Okay, this sounds like the VM is compiled with the wrong endianness. This
> should be figured out by autoconf - or did you hack the makefile by hand?
> 
> -- Bert

No, I just ran configure then make just like the instructions said and
everything compiled just fine.  However, thinking about it this Alpha
machine is a 64 bit system and so I'll bet that the color mapping may
want to use a 64 bits rather than the standard 32 bits.

Steve





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