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    Basilisk II 256 colours with dispmanx

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      McCarthy
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      Hi there,
      I'm using a Pi 3B+ with the latest retropie setup script. I build basilisk II with it in order to use it to make it run in 256 colour mode, but no matter what I try it always gives men's black screen when adding colour depth 8. I learned from another post that I have to enable dispmanx for Basilisk what I did, but still nothing.
      Is it possible that it simply ignores that setting?
      Is there a way to tell Basilisk to use dispmanx otherwise?
      Greetings

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        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        In RetroPie, you use the setup script, go to Configuration/Tools and open the dispmanx settings, from where you can enable it for the emulators that support it (that includes basilisk).

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          hoeveler @mitu
          last edited by hoeveler

          @mitu I'm not seeing any option for dispmanx in the Configuration/Tools menu. Has that been removed in more recent versions? I'm trying to figure out where to set my BasiliskII settings/configs so that it will open as a scaled (fullscreen) 640x480 (or something else that's less than the 1600x1200 default) so that I can see larger icons and menus. If I set the screen to 640x480 in either the run command options or within the Mac emulation itself, it just uses a portion in the upper left of the screen that's the same scale of icons, etc.
          EDIT: For anyone else who's been confused by this, I discovered where to find the dispmanx settings in Configurations/Tools. It's under 197 backendsthen select basilisk to change it to use dispmanx if you want to.

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