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From: ki@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Karsten Isakovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Bug in Overscan software.
Message-ID: <3393@quepasa.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 21 May 91 09:35:33 GMT
References: <1991May14.193547.29278@imada.ou.dk> <3365@quepasa.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1991May19.163606.18142@imada.ou.dk>
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <1991May19.163606.18142@imada.ou.dk> micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen) writes:
>I my version I have fixed these :
  [list of fixes deleted]

Your fixes were also fixed in the AutoSwitch-driver.

>How do you tell accs and the AES about the new screen size, I know that you
>have a reputation for making some really awsome hooks into TOS/GEM. 

I never said, that the AutoSwitch-feature is 'clean'. Yes, i have to change
some internal AES/VDI-variables. I am not very happy about having to do such
hacks, i personnaly prefer to programm conforming to the rules. But when i
did the autoswitch feature, i knew _what_ i was doing.
Look at Chameleon, this DA does things that are not 'normal' for DAs. But
it supports XBRA, hooks in the traps (I know, DA are not allowed to steal
trap vectors!) and so on. BUT this tiny thing works on _all_ TOS versions,
with _all_ 680xx processors and it does not crash on resolution changes. It
simply works. And you must know that i develloped it when there was no TT
or even 68020/30er boards. 
If i do a next release of Chameleon, it will be an auto-folder programm
for the Traps and a CPX for configuration. The new SM124-emulator for
the TT-High mode is done in this way.

My reputation in germany is very good, i am often asked how to do something
in legal ways. I beta-test lots of software to see if everything is
according to the rules.
 
> But you can't tell accs that the screen size have changed - can you?

If an DA uses form_center, wind_get or some of the other AES functions that
have something to do with screen-resolutions, the DA gets the right values.

>But not everybody can! If I send my version to atari.archive, (driver bin
>and source only) would you care? Should I release it as a Patch like KAOS,
>so that everybody that allready have overscan can patch it?? (sick)

Since you already send it to atari.archive, i have nothing against it ;-)

>>>Klaus, micro@imada.ou.dk 
Karsten, ki@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de