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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: WinFrotz color bugs
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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:57:41 GMT
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In article <9kteoi$m34$1@news.lth.se>, Magnus Olsson <mol@df.lth.se> wrote:
>>>Agreed, and if WinFrotz had done a better job at displaying colours,
>>>nobody would need to use both.
>>
>>I'm not sure it's really "better", since it's probably pretty
>>consistent with the zspec for text to be unreadable if foreground
>>color and background color are the same.
>
>Sorry, I seem to have muddled things a bit here. I didn't mean that
>particualr feature/misfeature/bug, but the fact that WinFrotz seems
>to have trouble with colours in general. I had to switch to
>DOS Frotz to run Photopia in colour, for example.

Do you remember the particular reason why? For me, it just had the
problem with reverting the background color incorrectly once in a
while, but apparently you could play through that and it would mostly
be fine. (And also I've now fixed that bug, hence the subject line.)

SeanB
