setting emac to 256 colors

[QCassidy352]

my mom has an old game that she wants to play on a new emac, but it requires setting the monitor to 256 colors. The appropriate option is in the monitors control panel, but it's greyed out. Is there anyway to make 256 colors an option on a new mac? Thanks for your help.

[MOFS]

I play SimTower occasionally on my iBook on OS X and that needs 256 colours only. I let it choose it, and it works fine, with the only problem being that my bacgrund (a JPEG) goes really grainy. SimTower changes the monitor settingsa automatically, so I would reccomend either trying SystemPreferences (if you haven't already), or, failing that, just reboot in OS 9.:( Hope this helps.

[Wes]

Originally posted by QCassidy352
my mom has an old game that she wants to play on a new emac, but it requires setting the monitor to 256 colors. The appropriate option is in the monitors control panel, but it's greyed out. Is there anyway to make 256 colors an option on a new mac? Thanks for your help.

Easy to fix, go to the pane in the system preferences and un-tick "Show modes recommended by display" and then 256 should no longer be grayed out.

[QCassidy352]

Originally posted by Wes
Easy to fix, go to the pane in the system preferences and un-tick "Show modes recommended by display" and then 256 should no longer be grayed out.

ha! how amazingly simple! thanks a lot.