256 Colors/Old Games

is there anyway to fix this manually, i have tried everything i can think of except using the start up disk to try and revert to an older version for leopard so i can play fallout again i have the GMA X3100 Graphics card witch Ive heard had the most issues with 256 colors recently, any ideas?

Unfortunately some games require software graphics emulation or hardware graphics emulation which may not work in the Classic environment, and only work while booted into Mac OS 9. If your eMac is too new for booting into Mac OS 9, you may be out of luck. To see which eMac can run booted mode, see this tip:
What can I upgrade my eMac to?

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Hi Guys,
I wondered if you can help me with this one. I recently bought a coyp of the old X-wing game from the mid-90's. I know that it only plays in OS9 and I am currently running OS 10.4.9.
I know that I need to be in the Classic environment, so I loaded OS9 onto my LaCie external harddrive. When I click on the little Xwing logo that I copied to my external drive, the system does the typical "fade-to-black" like the game is going to start up. However, the game never starts. It just kind of sits there with a goof "ghost-like" image of my OSX desktop that just changes colors, but never gets to the game. Am I doing something wrong?
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H, Nhojnik. X-Wing may require that your computer be set for a certain color depth and/or display resolution, and it may try to make the necessary hardware adjustments itself when you start it up. In OS 9, it can do that. In Classic mode within OS X, the game does not have access to any hardware adjustments: OS X retains absolute control of all hardware, and any Classic application that tries to access hardware controls will find the way barred against it.
If you can make the necessary adjustments yourself in OS X before opening X-Wing, perhaps the game will run. Give that a try, if you have some idea what the required settings might be. (For starters, you might try 256 colors and a resolution of 640 x 480, 800 x 600, or 1024 x 768.) If X-Wing won't run without being able to make the necessary hardware adjustments by itself, it's incompatible with Classic mode, and you won't be able to run it on your Mini.

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Hi, finwhiz, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Whether you can get the games to run stably in Classic mode depends on the design of each individual game. As a class of software, games may be less compatible with Classic mode than any other, because it has been so commonplace for game programmers to play fast and loose with Apple's software design guidelines. Specifically, game programmers have often presumed that a game will have direct access to the hardware of the computer it's running on, to change the display resolution, color depth, audio settings, etc. That may be true when a game runs in OS 9, but it isn't true when the same game runs in Classic: In Classic, only OS X (and the user, through OS X's System Preferences) has access to the hardware and hardware-related settings. A Classic application that tries to adjust the hardware by itself will fail, and if its programmer hasn't given it a graceful alternative (like asking you to make the necessary changes yourself), the game is likely to crash or quit unexpectedly.
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