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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] qemu_vga.drv missing 256 colors support
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To: Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:12 PM Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>
wrote:

> After testing a recent commit of QEMU I noticed that 256 color support is
> missing in Mac OS 9's color options. A lot of games refuse to run without
> being able to set the monitor to 256 colors. Could we have this option
> added?
>
> Thank you.
>

Hi,

An updated vga driver that supports 256 colours and reads edid info has
been committed to dgibson's ppc-for-4.0 branch:
https://github.com/dgibson/qemu/commit/4c693a81dbab9cecbf101c4c24e4b8af819df46c

Best,
Howard