John,

> Hi, I need some mac users who are using the mac carbon vm 3.6.1b5 to 
> check what happens
> if you switch to 8bit (256) colors and launch an image. I suspect os-x 
> always constructs the window
> graphics port as 16bit (thousands) or 32bit (millions) then lets the 
> graphics card deal with the 8bit
> rendering.
>
> Mind  I don't have proof. Hint, if you switch to 8bit and launch 
> squeak then get a white screen, then I've a
> candidate VM for you to test.

  I'm running your new Squeak 3.61Beta5.app on my box running Panther. 
Squeak launches in full 8-bit splendor.. (Is Squeak 3.61Beta5.app a 
carbon VM?)

Jim
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"Good code in perl is fine, but there's something about bad code in perl
that's worse than bad code in other languages, something very HP-
Lovecraft-mad-servants-of-the-elder-gods-chattering-in-the-
extradimensional-insect-language kind of bad that makes my head hurt 
when I have to read it." -- Jish Karoshi in comp.lang.ruby