Neomagic Magicmedia 256AV purple colour workaround - CMBO

[Marco Bergman]

I have managed to find a workaround for the Neomagic 256AV problem in CMBO of white being displayed as purple on my old Toshiba Tecra 8000.

Laptop: Toshiba Tecra 8000

Video driver: 4.11.01.5207-Q2.07.04 Driver here

DirectX 9c

Resolution: software mode

Windows 98SE

The solution consists of alt-tabbing to desktop once game has loaded, changing desktop colours to 256, and alt-tabbing back.

After playing, you need to reset the desktop colours back to what you normally use. If 256 colours are always selected, the game still shows purple - it seems the act of changing to 256 colour mode resets something.

Resolution of the game is software mode, so the graphics are slow and nasty, but at least the colours are ok.

The screen is very dim when you alt-tab from CM so I found it easiest to open display properties first, with 256 colours highlit (but not entered) before running the game. Then all you have to do is discern the OK button when you've alt-tabbed back to this screen.