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- From: magick@uni-paderborn.de (Mario Kemper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AGA, mode promotion, SwitchNTSC
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 11:31:03 GMT
- Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
- Lines: 39
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- Message-ID: <1do6hnINNpv@uni-paderborn.de>
- References: <1992Nov8.224118.8566@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Nov8.224118.8566@cbnews.cb.att.com>, itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
- |> Well, I picked up my 4000 this past week. After getting most of my
- |> "important" stuff from my 2000 to the 4000 I started playing with
- |> some software to see how it acted under AGA. I'm using a DblNTSC
- |> workbench and have mode promotion turned on. I started checking out
- |> a bunch of software and noticed that _nothing_ was being promoted.
- |> This upset me a bit, and I started looking for one of those hacks
- |> that is supposed to open the correct screen for you. THEN it hit
- |> me! I was running the SwitchNTSC commodity. I was using this
- |> so screens would open up centered and with the appropriate pen
- |> colors set to give pre-2.0x screens the 2.0x 3-d look. Apparently
- |> SwitchNTSC forces NTSC (or PAL) screens open too (so _that's_
- |> were the name came from). Thus nothing was getting promoted. I
- |> trashed SwitchNTSC and so far everything I've tried has been promoted
- |> just fine and I haven't needed one of the screen hacks yet!
- |>
- |> So basically this is just a warning. Don't run SwitchNTSC if you are
- |> using promotion on an AGA machine...
-
- Sorry for that. SwitchNTSC was one of my first 2.0 programs, so I knew
- not much about monitors and so on.
- But I still see the need of such a program, because if an application
- requests a PAL-Screen, it gets a PAL-Screen and not a DoublePAL-Screen.
- There are also programs, that open oldstyle-Screen which look horrible.
- But I agree, SwitchNTSC does not work with mode-promotion. In fact it
- wasn't supposed to. The Problem is, that it gets the Screen-Request
- before IControl. So it patches the modeID to NTSC, which IControl does not
- promote. I saw this effect on my a4000 to :-)
-
- --
-
- They say there's a heaven for those who can wait
- some say it's better, but I say it ain't
- rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
- the sinners are much more fun
- you know that only the good die young. -Billy Joel
-
- Mario Kemper magick@uni-paderborn.de
- University of Paderborn (Germany).
-