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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian F. Reschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Comparisons with Mac's Stepping Out II
Message-ID: <91122.112215ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Date: 2 May 91 10:40:52 GMT
References: <1991May01.065412.27026@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany


In article <1991May01.065412.27026@ecst.csuchico.edu>, ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu
(Ed Krimen) says:
>
>Has anyone seen Stepping Out II for the Mac?  It's a program like
>BigScreen and MonSTEr on the ST, which creates a virtual screen
>larger than your actual screen, and then you can scroll around it
>using the mouse.  Anyone know if there's a program like it on the ST,
>where you can shrink the virtual screen and see it all at once?
>(Anyone even know how that's done, and if it can be done on the ST?)
>
>I think Stepping Out II goes to 2048x2048.  Does anyone or would
>anyone ever use this size resolution?  Hey, how about 4096x4096?
>--
>   |||   Ed Krimen [ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu or al661@cleveland.freenet.edu]
>   |||   Video Production Major, California State University, Chico
>  / | \  SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261

There are two such programs:

(1) BigScreen 2 (SciLab) runs on all STs, STEs and TTs, supports hardware
    scrolling on STEs and the new resolutions of the TT (given you have
    a TOS version >= 1.04). It can be configured by a DA or a CPX and
    handles resolution changes correct. Alas, it's a commercial program and it
    supports only scrolling screens.
(2) There is a commercial program by `Application Systems Heidelberg' which
    only runs on STs, but HAS the ability to shrink the screen.
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