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From: deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ben Haller)
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Subject: Re: Solarian 1.04 on and LC
Keywords: really big monitors
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Date: 15 Mar 91 07:00:22 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.022010.23291@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
   hasses@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Stephen Haase) writes:
>I have no idea if this would work, but it seems that it would. There is a 
>program out there called Stepping Out II or something similiar that allows
>you to have a virtual screen of any size(within RAM limits I think). If
>you set it to 640x480, you might be able to play, although you still wouldn't
>see the whole screen at once...

No, this won't work.  Stepping Out requires certain cues that a program is
doing graphics - either the program has to call QuickDraw, or it has to
call a routine called ShieldCursor.  Solarian II does neither, for very
good reasons.  Therefore Stepping Out II will not work correctly with it.
It would probably show some graphics some of the time, but certainly not
all of them all the time, and certainly not enough to make the game
playable.

-Ben Haller (deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu)