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- Short: For Emplant/Retina, brings Mac screen to front
-
- This is for Emplant and Retina owners. Its a handy utility that
- when installed will bring the Emplant Mac screen to the front
- when ever the 'click here' screen is shuffled to the front with the
- Amiga-M keys.
-
- !!! No more 'click here' screen !!!
-
- It must be run from the shell as follows:
-
- RetinaSTF <width> <height> <bits per pixel>
-
- where:
-
- <width> = the width of the Emplant Mac screen
-
- <height> = the height of the Emplant Mac screen
-
- <bits per pixel> = the bits per pixel (8, 16, or 24)
- of the Emplant Mac screen
-
-
- To remove it, simply type ctrl-C in the shell that it was started in.
-
-
- I have the following line in my user-startup for RetinaSTF:
-
- Run >NIL: <NIL: RetinaSTF 640 480 8
-
-
- If I want to remove it, I use Steve Tibbett's TaskX to send it a ctrl-C.
-
-
- RetinaSTF works by installing a vertical blank interrupt that searches
- for the 'click here' screen as the frontmost screen. When it
- finds it, it brings the retina screen identified by the info you
- have supplied to the front.
-
- Two things could go wrong (neither is catastrophic):
-
- 1. If you have a 640x200 custom screen open other than the 'click
- here' screen, it could confuse the two and switch to the Mac
- screen when it shouldn't.
-
- 2. If you have another unnamed Retina screen (not a RetinaEMU screen)
- open with the same characteristics (i.e., width, height, and bits
- per pixel) that describe the Emplant Mac screen, it could accidentally
- switch to this screen instead.
-
-
- I hope you find this as useful as I do. Enjoy!
-
-
- David Walthour
- walthour@dartmouth.edu
-
-
- p.s. I've included the source for your inspection.
-
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 1687 811 51.9% 08-Feb-94 17:55:36 RetinaSTF.readme
- 2824 1771 37.2% 08-Feb-94 17:37:24 RetinaSTF/RetinaSTF
- 2757 884 67.9% 08-Feb-94 17:36:36 RetinaSTF/RetinaSTF.c
- 1594 451 71.7% 08-Feb-94 17:36:36 RetinaSTF/RetinaSTFs.a
- 134 109 18.6% 08-Feb-94 17:36:56 RetinaSTF/SCOPTIONS
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- 8996 4026 55.2% 09-Feb-94 15:48:50 5 files
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