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And I suppose I should heap praise on those that deserve it. I sent an email to battlefront.com tech support and received a reply (from Matt) within 24 hours which gave me several things to try. One of the suggestions lead to another discussion thread which suggested upgrading to a newer version of OpenGL, which is what worked for me. Thanks Matt. Great service!

I changed only one thing and the "black text" problem was cured. I had OpenGL extensions version 1.1.5. (There are actually six extensions as part of that OpenGL package). I installed OpenGL version 1.2.1 and the problem was cured. I had to download a demo of CroMag Rally to get a copy of OpenGL v 1.2.1, because it appears that it won't be generally available until MacOS 9.1 comes out.

I'm having the same problem on a G4 Cube running MacOS 9.04 with all the latest software updates available from Apple. The Cube has a single G4 processor (450 MHz) and an ATI Rage 128 Pro Video Card, Model ATY,Rage128Pro, ROM 113-72701-125, Rev 0. I see white text on a black background ("CD-ROM Required" and then "OK" inside a blue box) in the dialog box that pops up if I forget to insert my CD before starting the application. All other text dialog boxes are blank and black. For example, using command-q, I get two black dialog boxes. Clicking on the left box quits the game. I have no idea what the right box does. Another example, in the status window in the lower left of the screen, I can see text such as "Ammo", but the box next to that is blank and black.