A.276 - Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:47:34 -72000 From: Catherine Day <C.L.Day@massey.ac.nz>

I am wanting to run O on a couple of indys as well as our SGI machines. The screen quality seems to be exceptionally bad - the background is very grainy yet when Tom and Turbo are run on these machines the background is fine. Is there something I can set to correct this problem??

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 08:32:04 +0100 From: "Jean CAVARELLI" <cava@brouilly.u-strasbg.fr>

Just change the colour screen in O with screen_colour black.

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 08:35:39 +0100 (MET) From: Kay Diederichs <dikay@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>

Indys are SGI machines, aren't they?

If you compare the graphics quality of a Indy XZ with that of a Indigo2 XZ, there is no difference (identical boards!). For both Indy and Indigo2 the following holds: XL-24 should be the same quality as XZ, just slower, depending on CPU speed. XL-8 gives worse quality.

To improve background appearance, give the O command: 'screen black' (I have no idea why this is NOT the default).

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:14:01 +0100 (MET) From: gwebster@imb-jena.de (Gordon Webster)

The command

 screen ;

will set the screen colour to the default black, which will remove the unpleasant dithered colouring that is yielded by the standard Indy graphics card.

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 11:04:03 GMT From: d.timm@mv3b.cryst.bbk.ac.uk

Catherine, Have you tried screen black? Dave Timm