Hello all-

On at least three separate games (Alien Incident, Death Gate & Flight of the Amazon Queen), after an indeterminate time of gameplay (usually 10 minutes or more), my color palette geos bonkers. The game continues to run fine, but all the colors have been changed, making objects/text etc. unrecognizable. I use DFend as a frontend for DOSBox 0.63, and have run other games that this DOESN'T happen on. I've tried dinking around with the render methods, but to no avail. Anybody have any ideas?

Fizban aka Paladine

a similar things happens to me with netstorm, although not running in dosbox - try minimising and reexapnding the window.

try looking your taskmanager for any programs that don't belong there.
like utils that check periodicaly (10 minutes something)

if someone touches the pallet while dosbox runs. the colors mess up and dosbox doesn't correct them as dosbox wasn't the program who changed them

Thanks to both Beef and Data!

Beef- Your suggestion works, I should have remembered that changing the focus makes Windows refocus the palette also. I play in fullscreen, so I just alt-tab and back...another annoyance is that while I'm outside of DOSBox it still takes mouse input. If I happen to move the mouse while in another program, I'll have done something in the game. Oh well.

Data-
The only thing I have running is Atomic.exe, which is an Atomic clock synchronizer. I DID have a problem with it, due to <sarcasm alert> the great and glorious Windows firewall blocking port 13, which is the time server port. Fixed that, and the program only pings the atomic clock once per day, so that wasn't it. I DO have a behind-load of processes running, however, so I'm on the hunt there. Anyone have any ideas on a utility to trace what processes are tied to what programs? While "iexplore.exe" is pretty easy to figure out, "gcasDtServ.exe" is a bit of a stumper.

Thanks again to both of you, and I'm going to post Beef's suggestion in a couple of other places in the forums (with due credit, of course!)

Fizban aka Paladine

Fire up your favorite search engine and just type the name of the file with the extention. Should works wonder.

If you can't manage to find info on that particular file I would begin to ask myself some serious questions.

if you get powertoys for windowsxp (from microsoft) you can set it to stop programs stealing focus.

another good app is 'logoless' which turns off the windows key

you can play in this under scummvm :bye: