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First post, by majik

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Does anyone know if there is a way to correct this? When curse is loaded into dosbox, the color is mainly pink and light blue. Both games are from the underdog website but pool of radiance looked as good as when I first played it like 15 years ago with no bugs (none that I encountered). Any1 out there have a solution? Tanx in advance 😀

Reply 2 of 12, by jobrafo

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I found this post and coincidentally suffering from the same problem. With DOSbox I have used every setting possible in the config settings. A solution would make the game much more enjoyable. TY

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Reply 3 of 12, by DosFreak

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Post your DOSBox ver.
Post your OS.
Post a PIC of the issue.

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Reply 4 of 12, by Jorpho

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Pink and light blue (or more precisely, magenta and cyan) are the typical CGA palette colors. The game (not DOSBox) is likely configured somewhere to use CGA instead of some other video mode.

Reply 5 of 12, by Qbix

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or if it is a cga game, be sure to start dosbox in cga mode as else the wrong palette might be selected in rare cases

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Reply 6 of 12, by jobrafo

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DOSbox 0.73
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There are two pics. The first is when the game is running in fullscree the second is in a window.
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Reply 7 of 12, by jobrafo

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The first pic is discolored by windows paint for some reason. The gameplay colors are that of the second pic. (strange). I'm also posting the dosbox config snapshot.

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Reply 9 of 12, by jobrafo

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WOW! I fixed it. I completely deleted the game from my c: drive with a character backup of course. Then reinstalled the game. I restarted it and INSURED that I selected "ega" from the graphics and sound selection menus. DO NOT SELECT "cga" or "tandy"!!!! repeat prior sentence. I reconfig'd dosbox to run in "ega" and yay it works great. I know that a correction response was not posted, but your question got me to digging deeper into the matter and found that I selected the wrong graphics display in the first run of the new install. I hope this helps someone else with the "ORIGINAL" RPG that started it all, and I'm referring to old school graph paper and dice.

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Reply 12 of 12, by robertmo

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For tandy you would need to configure dosbox to tandy too. Then it should be properly there too i think.

For cga i think it may also look better if dosbox supported composite mode for that resolution. (although still not as good as ega or tandy)