Date   : Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:33:32 +0000
From   : James Fidell <james@...>
Subject: Re: XBeeb problem

Quoting Bill Keesing (bill@...):

> OK, I have downloaded the tarball, done the make/makeinstall thing and
> made sure that the roms directory in xbeeb contains the roms as
> shown:
>
> BASIC2.rom
> OS1.2p1.rom
> xdfs0.70.rom
>
> When I start the emulator I get a "Failed to allocate colour planes"
> error.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

You're not doing anything wrong, actually.  It's a bug.  When I wrote the
code originally, I only had a pseudo-colour X display, so that's all I was
able to test.  These days most people have true-colour displays, which is
what causes this problem.  I'm hoping to get some time to look at it this
week, since I'm currently "between contracts".

James.
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