[Wine] 256 Bit Color Mode

[James McKenzie]

Michael_LaCorte wrote:
> Hello, I have recently been trying to get Starcraft Broodwar (PC) to run on my Macbook Pro (1.6.2). 
>
> I have installed Wine 1.1.40 using Macports and Wine seems to be working, however, when I try to launch Starcraft, an error pops up saying, "Starcraft was unable to switch video modes. To correct this problem, please set Desktop Area to 640 x 480 and Color Palette to 256 colors and try running Starcraft again."
>
> When I installed Starcraft under Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit) using Wine 1.1.40 the game ran perfectly.
>
> Any ideas how I would correct this issue without having to run the game in windowed mode? The terminal output is as follows:
>   
No.  You will have to run the program in windowed mode.  Blame it on the
broken X11 supplied with MacOSX.


> err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 640x480x8 @0! (NoRes)
> err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1440x878x8 @0! (NoRes)
>
>
>   
This is why.

James McKenzie