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- Some frequently asked questions regarding the Fellow Amiga Emulator:
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- (To be extended....)
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- Q1: Not all documented graphics modes are available in the emulator, why?
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- Q2: Will future versions of the emulator run with older VESA versions, or
- make use of banked VGA modes?
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- Q3: When I move the mouse or type something, my computer hangs.
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- Q4: The emulator hangs when I enable sound.
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- Q5: Will there be ports to Windows/Linux etc.?
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- Q1: Not all documented graphics modes are available in the emulator, why?
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- A1: Possible reasons why modes were not found:
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- - The linear-framebuffer capability is required, and not found.
- - Your VESA driver does not support the given mode.
- - The VESA driver does not support VBE V2.0 extensions.
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- Make sure you have a VESA VBE V2.0 driver installed.
- SDD (Univbe) is a good one.
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- Univbe can sometimes run in Vesa V1.2 mode unless it is started with
- some additional command-line switches.
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- A log of the interaction with the VESA driver can be found in
- "fellow.log" when the emulator is started with the "-log" switch.
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- Q2: Will future versions of the emulator run with older VESA versions, or
- make use of banked VGA modes?
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- A2: Apart from the standard VGA 320x200 mode, no.
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- VESA V2.0 has been around for a long while now, and should not
- represent a problem. It makes DOS graphics-programming much cleaner.
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- Q3: When I move the mouse or type something, my computer hangs.
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- A3: Possible cause is using an old version of the DOS4GW extender file.
- Version V1.97 of dos4gw works well.
- Should be obsolete with V0.3 since it it linked with PMODEW.
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- Q4: The emulator hangs when I enable sound.
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- A4: This is a known problem with the emulator versus Soundblaster-clone
- cards (and maybe some real Soundblasters, too, judging from bug-reports).
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- Q5: Will there be ports to Windows/Linux etc.
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- A5: No ports are in the works.
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