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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: ******** Vista 3.0 Bad Programming ********
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 20:53:38 GMT
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- In article <4fiffc$kon@netty.york.ac.uk> jlo100@york.ac.uk (JL Orgill) writes:
- > Satpal Chander (c9502007@zeus.hud.ac.uk) wrote:
- > : I have vist 3.0 on my 4k with a piccolo card runnning cybergfx.
- > : But vista just refused to load. I worked out why this was.
- > : My workbench was on a piccolo screen and vista 3.0 tries to lock onto
- > : the parent screen without much luck so if you mode promote it with
- > : newmode (3.9) it loads a screen and then 5secs later guru`s you.
- > : The only way I have got vista to work was buy putting workbench on a
- > : normal amiga screen and then promoting vista to super72:super hires
- > : laced. It owrks for only this resalution.
- > : This has to be the strangest way i`ve ever seen a program work????
- >
- > : Anybody any ideas why they coded it this way. I mean in the age of gfx
- > : cards and multi resulation surely you should be able to open it on any
- > : of screen mode.
- >
- > This is just a suggestion. I use MCP, and there is a feature where you
- > can add tooltypes to program icons of the form MCP******. From memory,
- > one of these makes the program believe that WB is a normal PAL screen.
- > You might want to try this out.
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- There is? I haven't discovered this one. I usually use embedder to cure
- those sort of problems. Is the MCP tooltypes option any good?
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