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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 10:09:35 +0000 ()
From: Justin Viiret <justin@cyburbia.bns.com.au>
To: Steve Reid <root@edmweb.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't run Java applets in Netscape Atlas
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On Sat, 4 May 1996, Steve Reid wrote:

> > > "Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background"
> > I'm fairly sure that this is because you're running in 8 bit colour... 
> Unfortunately, my little 512k video card (integrated on the motherboard) is 
> incabable of more than 8 bits per pixel. :(

Shouldn't be any problem... if you really want to, you can run netscape 
with the -install parameter, which will install its own colourmap.

> Ah, okay... I unset the CLASSPATH variable in the shell script that runs 
> netscape, and it gets a bit farther, but I still can't seem to do 
> anything with applets... They load, and everything pretends to be fine, 
> but I can't actually do anything with the applets. For instance, the 
> TicTacToe demo applet, it shows the #-shaped board, but I can't do 
> anything with it. With other applets, I can usually see a different shade 
> of gray where the applet would appear, but that's all.

This is news to me :) Things seem to work fine for me... perhaps someone 
else can help?

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