Well, tried setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER=WINDIB variable.. no luck. Guess my only option is to wait for 0.74 😒 At least I can still play around on my old XP machine 😉 Thanks for all the responses guys. Regards, Gary

try different output= I've tried that... started with surface, currently ddraw, tried opengl etc. nothing worked. Apparently explorer corrupts the pallete. Anyone running in Win 7 64bit with success?

kill explorer.exe anyway wait for 0.74 win7 their explorer corrupts the palete So how would I do that? Is there even a way? And is a 0.74 under development?

Been running 0.72 for years on an XP machine, worked great. Just built a new system running Win 7, 64 bit. Did some research and found I'd need 0.73 for Win 7. Downloaded it, setup my config, mounted C:, CD Drive etc, launched one of several old DOS games I had and everything looked fine except.... …