What to do about apps that require 256-color mode?

[Dan Kegel]

On 1/2/07, L. Rahyen <research at science.su> wrote:
> > So what's Wine to do?  Can we somehow tell Wine
> > to emulate 256 color mode for particular apps?
>
>         You can try to launch game like this:
>
> wine explorer /desktop=Game,800x600 game.exe
>
>         At least for me this simple trick helps sometimes.

Thanks for the tip.  Doesn't help in this case, though.  The
app sits in a loop, waiting forever for the screen to do something
magic, I suppose.   +relay output appended for the curious.
- Dan

...
000e:Call gdi32.CreateICA(00fae4fc "DISPLAY",00000000,00000000,00000000) ret=00f
a28b7
000e:Ret  gdi32.CreateICA() retval=00001208 ret=00fa28b7
000e:Call gdi32.GetDeviceCaps(00001208,00000008) ret=00fa28ff
000e:Ret  gdi32.GetDeviceCaps() retval=00000320 ret=00fa28ff
...
000e:Call user32.ChangeDisplaySettingsA(0034f734,00000002) ret=00fa21f9
000e:Call winex11.drv.ChangeDisplaySettingsEx(00000000,0034f558,00000000,0000000
2,00000000) ret=7ec4bb39
000e:Ret  winex11.drv.ChangeDisplaySettingsEx() retval=00000000 ret=7ec4bb39
000e:Ret  user32.ChangeDisplaySettingsA() retval=00000000 ret=00fa21f9
000e:Call kernel32.lstrcatA(00fb0420 "800 600 16 0 noninterlaced color dynamic\r
320 200 16 0 noninterlaced color dynamic\r400 300 16 0 noninterlaced color dynam
ic\r512 384 16 0 noninterlaced color dynamic\r640 480 16 0 noninterlaced color d
ynamic\r1024 768 16 0 noninterlaced color dynamic\r800 600 8 0 noninterlaced col
or dynamic\r320 200"...,00fae148 "dynamic") ret=00fa226f
000e:Ret  kernel32.lstrcatA() retval=00fb0420 ret=00fa226f
000e:Call user32.EnumDisplaySettingsA(00000000,00000012,0034f734) ret=00fa20ce
000e:Call winex11.drv.EnumDisplaySettingsEx(00000000,00000012,0034f548,00000000)
 ret=7ec4bcde
000e:Ret  winex11.drv.EnumDisplaySettingsEx() retval=00000000 ret=7ec4bcde
000e:Ret  user32.EnumDisplaySettingsA() retval=00000000 ret=00fa20ce
000e:Call kernel32.GetTickCount() ret=00459289
000e:Ret  kernel32.GetTickCount() retval=0002bc87 ret=00459289
000e:Call kernel32.GetTickCount() ret=0049b7c4
000e:Ret  kernel32.GetTickCount() retval=0002bc87 ret=0049b7c4
000e:Call user32.PeekMessageA(0034fc58,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000001) ret=
0049b823
000e:Call winex11.drv.MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx(00000000,00000000,00000000,000
004ff,00000000) ret=7ec34c3b
000e:Ret  winex11.drv.MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx() retval=00000102 ret=7ec34c3b
000e:Ret  user32.PeekMessageA() retval=00000000 ret=0049b823
000e:Call user32.GetAsyncKeyState(0000001b) ret=0049b8ab
000e:Call winex11.drv.GetAsyncKeyState(0000001b) ret=7ec16bb3
000e:Ret  winex11.drv.GetAsyncKeyState() retval=00000000 ret=7ec16bb3
000e:Ret  user32.GetAsyncKeyState() retval=00000000 ret=0049b8ab
000e:Call user32.GetAsyncKeyState(00000011) ret=0049b8b4
000e:Call winex11.drv.GetAsyncKeyState(00000011) ret=7ec16bb3
000e:Ret  winex11.drv.GetAsyncKeyState() retval=00000000 ret=7ec16bb3
000e:Ret  user32.GetAsyncKeyState() retval=00000000 ret=0049b8b4
...
repeat above over and over forever.