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- From: Tim Peers <tpeers@paston.co.uk>
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- Subject: AMOS AGA- The Nastier Question... :)
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 22:35:39 GMT
- Organization: Paston Chase Internet
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- First, thanks to everyone who replied to my last post- I got too
- many replies to deal with individually, but YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE..
- :D
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- Now, the nasty question. I'm reliably informed that the AGA expansion
- does NOT provide a twin 16 colour dual playfield display, even though
- the AGA architecture supports this screenmode. So the question is, can
- I fool/trick/bully/bludgeon AMOS Pro into opening such a screen anyway,
- given that once open the architecture should handle the screen transparently
- to AMOS?
-
- Possibilities:
- 1) After opening the screens and dualling them, reformat the screens
- from 8 to 16 colour without alerting AMOS... (ouch!)
- 2) Somehow kill off the error checking that stops me dualling two 16
- colour screens (double ouch!)
- 3) Rewrite the Dual Playfield system from scratch (yeah, right!)
- 4) Open the screen through Intuition, then hand it over to AMOS somehow. (Hmm.)
-
- Any suggestions? As before, Email would be preferred.
-
- Tim
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