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From:Bart King
Date:29 May 2000 at 14:34:51
Subject:Re: Workbench trouble

"Jonathan Drain" <digital@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:

> set the screen to Interlace, with the height set to 480 so that it would fit
> in a full-screen view. Nifty, eh?

Anyone with half a brain cell would have figured that out. I use 1012x768,
because I have my Windows task bar on the right of the screen (can't stand
it at the bottom). Why use native screen modes anyway - the Picasso96
emulation is very good.

> However, I wasn't able to copy Workbench 3 from a CUCD due to the fact that

It's not Workbench that's why, go buy it.

> properly? They are set as the ugly default colours but magically change into
> the ones I've set them to once I open the Palette prefs?

That's a problem with your graphics card/drivers or DirectX. Best make
sure you have DX7.0a if you have 95/98.

> I know that my unaccelerated 2Mb A600 would choke when it comes to emulating
> a Gameboy, but would it run in black-and-white, with no sound, in a tiny
> little screen and skipping every other frame of animation?

Just go and buy a Gameboy, not as if they're expensive.

(And for those of you wondering why I use UAE as an Amiga developer, yes, I
use it for testing - it's crap for development :)



Bart King
Developer
http://www.bartmansoftware.co.uk
ICQ: 18178781 - IRC: bart (ArcNET)

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