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- From: jwaller@terminus.terminus.com (John Waller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: ******** Vista 3.0 Bad Programming ********
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 01:22:21 GMT
- Organization: Second Foundation, Lompoc, CA
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- > 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.
-
- You have to remember that Vista was written *before* the
- proliferation of GFX cards. The only cards available then were cards like
- the Firecracker, which are display only cards, i.e., you cannot run
- workbench on it.
-
- If you want to contact the Amiga programmer of Vista, e-mail at:
- 75300.3706@compuserve.com
-
- > Confused
- >
- > SATPAL CHANDER The Truth Is Within
- > Huddersfield University
- > England
-