diff --git a/src/testdir/screendump.vim b/src/testdir/screendump.vim
index 5131b93..5ebe609 100644
--- a/src/testdir/screendump.vim
+++ b/src/testdir/screendump.vim
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
   hi Normal ctermfg=0 ctermbg=15
 
   let cmd = GetVimCommandClean()
-  let cmd .= ' ' . a:arguments
+  " Add -v to have gvim run in the terminal (if possible)
+  let cmd .= ' -v ' . a:arguments
   let buf = term_start(cmd, {'curwin': 1, 'term_rows': 20, 'term_cols': 75})
   call assert_equal([20, 75], term_getsize(buf))
 
diff --git a/src/testdir/test_syntax.vim b/src/testdir/test_syntax.vim
index 554ff16..1969152 100644
--- a/src/testdir/test_syntax.vim
+++ b/src/testdir/test_syntax.vim
@@ -527,6 +527,8 @@
 " Check highlighting for a small piece of C code with a screen dump.
 func Test_syntax_c()
   " Need to be able to run terminal Vim with 256 colors.
+  " On MS-Windows the console only has 16 colors and the GUI can't run in a
+  " terminal.
   if !has('terminal') || has('win32')
     return
   endif
@@ -551,9 +553,15 @@
 	\ '  }',
 	\ '}',
 	\ ], 'Xtest.c')
+ 
+  " This makes the default for 'background' use "dark", check that the
+  " response to t_RB corrects it to "light".
+  let $COLORFGBG = '15;0'
+
   let buf = RunVimInTerminal('Xtest.c', {})
   call VerifyScreenDump(buf, 'Test_syntax_c_01')
   call StopVimInTerminal(buf)
 
+  let $COLORFGBG = ''
   call delete('Xtest.c')
 endfun
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 95e5a72..085e0f9 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -779,6 +779,8 @@
 static int included_patches[] =
 {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
 /**/
+    1534,
+/**/
     1533,
 /**/
     1532,