[Wine] old school 256 bit, 8 bpp apps running in wine

[Gert van den Berg]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 23:10, steve80289 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> does anyone know if there may be development of an option in wine to have a different color scheme depending on the program or have the ability to change it within wine? if not i think it would be a good idea to implement something along those lines, even though the games are really old (in my case win 95/98) they may be old, but they are still really fun.
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AFAIK these apps work if you have your X11 set up for 256 colors....
(not really a nice thing to do just to run a game...) I don't think
emulation / another method is implemented in Wine... (XP has a
compatbility option for that, which AFAIK sets the colors while the
app is running...)