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Subject: Re: 8514/A icons
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Date: 19 May 91 12:34:17 GMT
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In article <1991May18.180216.17512@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
> 8514/A users, that have used OS/2 1.2 before upgrading to 1.3 now
> probably remember that the 1.2 driver used the large 64x64 icons unless
> they patched their driver to use the 32x32 icons.
> 
> When I got 1.3 I thought "Ok, now the IBM programmers have already
> changed the driver to use the small icons". But sometimes program icons
> of some PD programs were invisible and many icons looked a bit strange
> and rough. A couple of weeks ago I got the NEKO program (the cat running
> on the desktop for the mouse pointer) and was a bit disappointed by the
> running "cloud of dots" on my screen.
> 
>...
> Since I patched this to 32x32 the driver now shows normal, good looking
> icons and NEKO also works correctly (it's so cute !). The byte offset
> to patch is 0x1EF02.
> 
> When the driver uses 40x40 icons, the system has to stretch either the
> smaller 32x32 or the larger 64x64 icons to 40x40, an additional overhead
> (or can the 8514/A handle this itself ?).

If I remember your previous postings correctly, Kai-Uwe, you are using
a Paradise 8514/A clone?  I wonder if this is the cause of your problems,
as I upgraded my 1.2 to 1.3 on my IBM model 70 with and IBM 8514/A
card (with full memory) and there hasn't been any problems.  The icons
are nicely reduced and are just miniature versions of the previous ones
(thank goodness!).  Indeed, all icons work well.

Are there any high-res *IBM* 8514 users with the above problems?

Mark Kosten