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- The STE MONO EMULATOR
-
- Please note this software is SHAREWARE it is not public
- domain and is NOT FREE. It can be uploaded to BBS's and can be
- included in libraries as long as no fee is charged other than a
- reasonable copying charge. You are granted a limited 1 week license
- to assess the usability or usefulness of the software, after which a
- shareware payment of $25 Australian or the equivalent thereof should
- be sent to this address.
- Moving Pixels
- 10/65-71 Trafalgar St.
- Stanmore, Sydney 2048
- AUSTRALIA
-
- If you intend continued use of the program.
-
- MYMONO.PRG is an STE monoemulator that makes extensive use of
- the machines enhanced capabilities to produce the fastest mono
- emulator available. You'll see from the timings below that it is
- considerably faster than version 5.0 of MICK WEST's mono emulator and
- as such is actually quite a serious alternative to buying a mono
- monitor if you just use mono applications occaisionally.
-
- I've tried it with everything I have including Calamus and
- some music packages and there seems to be no problems whatsoever. I
- had to resort to a trick to make TOS think there was no blitter in
- the machine and as such the menu option to turn the blitter on or off
- no longer appears on the GEM desktop. This does mean however that YOU
- MUST SAVE YOUR DESKTOP WITH THE BLITTER TURNED OFF OR THE SOFTWARE
- WILL NOT WORK.
-
- There are quite a few options and 3 different emulation modes
- available. The software must run from the Auto folder, but I don't
- believe it has to be the first program run, unless other things in
- this folder make decisions based on the resolution of the machine, in
- which case it should run before those applications. When the emulator
- boots you have the option of hitting <RETURN> and getting your saved
- defaults or choosing all the options manually.
-
- SPEED:
- This is the speed of update. 0 will give you a perfectly
- smooth emulation, just like looking at a real mono monitor, the mouse
- doesn't jerk and the graphics don't ghost. The down side is of course
- that this slows down the operation of the machine considerably, look
- at the timing below to see the facts and figures. 9 is very slow
- update but the machine runs almost as if no emulation was happenning.
-
- ALIASING:
- This is the same type of emulation used by existing emulators
- although considerably faster, it uses a special palette that allows
- the screen to be antialiased, subsequently increasing the apparent
- resolution but also giving a slightly blurred look to screen.
-
- INTERLACE:
- A new way of cramming 400 lines of data into only 200, the
- idea is of course used on the Amiga to do just that. This, whilst
- being a very faithful representation of the high rez screen, is very
- annoying to most people, I personally don't mind it that much but use
- it at your own risk.
-
- SCROLLING:
- This method is the clearest of all modes but you only get the
- 200 lines nearest your mouse pointer shown at any time. The display
- automatically scrolls with the cursor.
-
- SYNC:
- You can choose to put your machine and monitor into 50 or
- 60Hz mode. This is for the sake of choice. Some people prefer 60Hz on
- interlace mode as the flicker is faster and slightly less noticable.
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- SAVE:
- Once you have made all your choices you can save the settings
- as defaults so that each time you boot hitting return will produce
- your favourite setup. An info file will be created on the disk and
- you will be warned of any problems (like write protect).
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- TIMINGS
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- All these timings were produced with the excelent QINDEX1.5
- all numbers are percent of normal speed (100%). In each column the
- left hand number is using the fastest emulation (screen update) the
- middle using the initial default settings, and the right most number
- is using the slowest emulation.
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- MYMONO MONO_EMU
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- CPU:___________________________________________________________________
- Memory | 57 89 96 | 46 70 92
- Register| 57 89 96 | 48 70 92
- Divide | 92 93 97 | 48 70 92
- Shifts | 93 96 97 | 48 70 92
- BIOS: | |
- Text | 56 87 94 | 47 69 90
- String | 57 88 95 | 48 69 91
- Scroll | 57 89 96 | 48 70 92
- GEM: | |
- Draw | 60 94 101 | 51 74 97
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