#640×480 x 16 colors
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Will ANI PRO operate in the standard 16 colors of VGA 640 x 480.
I know the video board has to support that – but I would like to use
that mode as all my work ends up in that mode – standard VGA not SVGA.
It would be nice if I could bypass the conversion process…
Thanks
Tom
Animator Pro works only in 256-color VGA modes. It does not operate in 16
color modes.
– Jack
Thanks for the reply!
One other thing. The DESQVIEW folks say as long as I stay in
16 color mode I should have no problem otherwise I'm on my own.
When I switch back to ANI Pro from another window the screen
gets corrupted and often freezes up. Have you folks tried using
DesqView?
-tom
I haven't. Maybe Gary has. Animator Pro likes to have all the memory it can
get and doesn't respond well to other programs sharing the RAM pool. It's a
little selfish that way. Probably has something to do with having to
animate all those hi-res pixels <g>.
– J
The inability to save and switch back to 256-color screens is a
long-standing limitation in DESQview. There have been some hints that
either their forthcoming DESQview/X product, or a future version of DV
itself that borrows DV/X driers, may solve this — but right now, AAPro and
DV task-switching don't mix.
Yes Thomas, we have used Desqview and it does exactly what you say. AA Pro
does not support any 16 color modes. There is nothing we could do on our
end without limiting the functionality of AA Pro by depriving it of the 386
Dos Extender. We do have an animation product that does operate under
Desqview and Windows. Its called Autodesk Animator. ~
-GB-