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- From: jlo100@york.ac.uk (JL Orgill)
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- Subject: Re: ******** Vista 3.0 Bad Programming ********
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 16:00:44 GMT
- Organization: The University of York, UK
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- 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.
-
- TTFN
- SteveB
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