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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: A1438 problems
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 13:32:11 GMT
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- In article <4h43d6$1v1@news.xs4all.nl> donjanus@xs1.xs4all.nl (donjanus) writes:
- > Hi!
- >
- > Since last tuesday I am the proud owner of a new monitor. I am
- > experiencing some weird problems though.
-
- Ah yes, I remember them well
-
- > Although the monitor is fine, the software is acting weird. For example
- > F1GP won't show a screen, just disorted pixels...
-
- Ah yes, the old ah! I'm running a higher res screen and now bugger all
- games work, routine. Turn off mode promotion in IControl, if that
- doesn't fix it get EmbedderII from Aminet and use that to open a blanck
- screen as the game starts. All this can be done automatically in a
- script.
-
- > AWeb doesn't show pictures and IBrowse needed a new datatype. Also, the
- > screen moves to the right in lower resolutions.
-
- Ah yes, spend some more time aligning your screen modes in Overscan the
- prefs editor.
-
- > Any help? What did I do wrong?
-
- Not so much you as various programmers not quite doing what they should,
- in fairness, perhaps the game came out before the AGA chip set so they
- may have an excuse. Mind you not much of one, as Productivity screen
- mode was available under ECS and I used to use it on my old A500+ and
- get similar problems. Just remember that if all else fails put the
- Workbench screen mode back to PAL/NTSC high res, turn screen mode
- promotion off and that should cure it, also use EmbedderII and you
- should be able to run most things. Also to have script do these things
- for you, remember that ALL the prefs editors can be used from the CLI
- with the USE keyword, so your game script can reset everything for you
- and run the game.
-
- Another hint, as you will find many games now have this type of problem,
- don't just write the script for every game write a script and put it in
- s: call the script something like s:badgame then call the script in your
- game script like:
-
- execute s:badgame
- embedder nameofgame.exe
- exceute s:restoresys
-
- Hope that helps
-
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