From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Jul 30 2000 - 06:54:52 EDT
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:44:34 -0700, Andy Beals wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:07:41 -0700, "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury_at_loop.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:56:17 EDT, Bmwm61_at_aol.com wrote:
>>
>> >How can I configure my 730T to run games that require a color monitor? Some
>> >work without a problem, e.g. Chessmaster 4000, but others refuse to load and
>> >I don't know what the difference is.
>>
>> Jim - you need to set this in the BIOS.
>> There is an option in Easy Setup to have it act as if it's using a color or
>> mono monitor.
>>
>> To enter setup, upon powering up, touch the stylus on the suspend button,
>> and keep the power button depressed until you see the IBM copyright notice.
>
>There's also the issue of color depth. Some games will play ONLY in 256-color mode. You can set your lcd to this,
but I think it's faked in the driver. It does, however, seem as if the external display has an 8-bit depth when you do
this.
>
I noticed it says it can go up to 24 bit. Yeah, right. =)
I think the video RAM is either 512KB or 1MB, but I'm pretty sure it's 1MB in my TE.
I believe the max the LCD can do is 64 gray shades anyways.
Paul
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