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- From: rtillery@crash.cts.com (Rick Tillery)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 800x600 on A4000 - HOW?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.090907.15622@crash>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 17:09:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.223905.10671@crash> <37970@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- In article <37970@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec13.223905.10671@crash> rtillery@crash.cts.com (Rick Tillery) writes:
- >>I've got lots of GIFs and JPEGs in 800x600 (or that will fit on that size
- >>screen but not on 640x480) and there seems to be no view that will support
- >>that screen type. I've converted them to 256 color or HAM8 IFFs and tried
- >>Multiview, and tried to use ViewTek 1.3 with no success. All I get is a
- >>"normal" screen I have to scroll around in. Even ADPro won't open a screen
- >>of that type. What gives?
- >
- >If your monitor supports 800x600 interlaced (not all VGA-type monitors
- >do, but many multiscanning ones do), you can tell your system that by
- >installing the "Super72" monitor. Simply drag the Super72 icon from
- >the Storage/Monitors directory to the Devs/Monitors directory. Once
- >installed there, it will be invoked whenever you start your computer.
- >If you don't want to reboot this first time, you can simply
- >double-click on it to activate it.
-
- Been there, done that. I can open up an 800x600 WB just fine, but neither
- MultiView nor ViewTek will open up a screen (even with the WB in that mode
- and Mode Promotion off) with that resolution to view an 800x600 image.
-
- >
- >Now the ScreenMode Prefs will list modes such as Super72 SuperHires
- >Lace, which is 800x600. Whatever tool converts your IFFs may need
- >to be screen-mode aware to record this display ID in the IFF file, or
- >else the IFF viewer needs to be aware to choose this mode to show it
- >in.
- >
- Didn't C= write Multiview? Shouldn't IT be screen mode aware? I can
- say that it certainly doesn't look it!
-
- I guess I'll have to write my own viewer. Will CATS send me (as simple
- programmer with no commercial product, but who OWNS an A4000) the 3.0
- Includes and Autodocs?
-
- Better yet, can you get THEM to have an Internet account so they can
- accept electronic requests and e-mail the Includes and Autodocs? They
- are in electronic form already, and it seems to me that releasing them
- for a released machine is akin to releasing the RKMs (albeit with no
- profit, but that's just printing cost right? :-)
-
- >Peter Cherna, User Interface Development Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
- >{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!peter peter@cbmvax.commodore.com
- >My opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer.
- >"Opinions enlarged to show detail"
-
- Rick Tillery
-