[uae] Re: how to use UAE with 892 x 672 pixels resolution or any other resolution you desire

  • From: Richard Drummond <evilrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:22:27 -0500

Hi Martin

On Saturday 26 March 2005 04:30 pm, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> today I defined a screen mode that is a little less than 1024 x 768 to
> avoid that the UAE window overlaps with my KDE toolbars. I used 896 x 672
> (1/8 less than 1024 x 768).
>
> First I simply tried reducing the size in ScreenMode. But that didn't make
> the UAE window smaller. Then I tried using 800x600 screenmode with the
> custom size 896 x 672 in ScreenMode. This gave my a crash of E-UAE during
> booting AmigaOS.

Yep. There is still a problem with autoscroll (or more specifically the 
SetPanning P96 driver function) that I need to fix.

> Well then I tried Picasso96Mode. I created a new setting, attached it to
> uaegfx and after some tries on how the whole stuff works I just created
> one resolution 896 x 672 with 8 bit and 32 bit modes and a display ID
> base of $6000 to avoid clashes with the builtin uaegfx modes that for
> some reason did not show up in Picasso96Mode at all.
>
> Now this works as expected and I have all the builtin uaegfx mode and that
> new nice 896x672 which fits nicely onto my 1024 x 768 KDE 3.4 desktop
> while not being as small as 800x600 ;-).

Ingenious. ;-)

> Maybe there is cleaner approach to also get the builtin uaegfx modes into
> Picasso96Mode?

I didn't know that they didn't show up up P96Mode. I'll investigate...

Cheers,
Rich

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