Date   : Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:37:06 +0000
From   : James Fidell <james@...>
Subject: Re: BBC emulator on Linux?

Quoting Chris Walton (cdw@...):

> Is anyone succesfully running a BBC emulator under Linux?   I have tried both 
> xbeeb and BeebEm, but neither seems to work.   They both compile OK, but on 
> running them I get the following error messages:
> 
> xbeeb:  Failed to allocate colour planes!!!

Hmm.  Xbeeb is greedy about getting it's own colour planes, though I was
sure I'd fixed that in later versions.  Which version are you running ?

> BeebEm: an X error on display :0.0text: BadMatch (invalid parameter
> attributes)

I'd guess this is because it can't find a font.

James.
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