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- From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- Subject: The 'Screens' debate:
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.015546.22863@usl.edu>
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- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:55:46 GMT
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- As far as I can see, only real use for these 'screens' on Amigas
- is to simultaneously display a resolution/colors combination radically
- different from the WorkBench.
-
- It is a nice thing to pull down the WorkBench, and see a largely differnt
- resolutions/colors scheme, but I don't see how it is terribly
- useful. To make a generality, Amigas really need this mostly in cases
- where the 'standard' mode they are in is insufficient. Right?
-
- If the WB was in a 16color, higher-res mode (say, an A3000), and you
- wanted to display or use an art program that used 256 colors, you
- could easily give it its own 'screen' to 'HAM-it-up' or what-not. Then
- you could 'drag' down the screen and still access the WB.
-
- NOW: is this better than running a hires, 256-color WB *anyway* and then
- running the art program, and *iconizing* the art program to get back to
- the WB? Or having it truly 'windowed' on the 256-color WB and simply
- DRAG that windows it is in 'off' side of the screen into virtual-WB
- space? It is still full-screen, and you can still see the WB (ala
- 'pulling' down a screen).
-
- My friends, that is basically what all these people with Windows and
- OS/2 do anyway. If I wanted to run art programs, and liked hi-color
- desktops in Windows anyways (background, whatever), I'd run a
- 256-color driver. I could maximize/minimize the art program easy enough,
- or 'flip' through apps to get to it. And in OS/2 I could simply drag that
- full-screen 'down' with the title bar...'down' or sideways, whatever - it
- would just be a *window* that _happened_ to be the full-screen size.
-
- So while 'screens' are in fact pretty nice, they do not seem to be
- the savior of Amigas like so many people on this group say they are.
-
- Well?
-
- --
- Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- "Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-