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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: Maxim Surdu <maxim@mas2000.msk.ru>
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In-reply-to: Maxim Surdu's message of Mon, 29 Sep 1997 02:50:40 +0300
Subject: Re: Yet another doom question?
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> 
> Dear Sirs,
> Sorry for bothering you with this question...
> I'd like to ask how could I run Doom under 16bpp Xserver
> without restarting it in 8bpp mode?
> When I sart it now it writes that
> it only supports 256 colors and exits...:-(

No can do.  It only supports 256 colors.  (That's due to the
implementation of the texture-mapping routines in Doom)

Eivind.