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- MONOFIX
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- The ATARI Falcon030 can be connected to the SM124/144/146. It will
- then automatically display ST-high-resolution. But there is a
- little problem (at least with TOS 4.01): Some (older) programs quit
- saying they only work in high resolution, but the resolution
- definitivly is "ST-high". And Maccel doesn't invert the screen
- periodically, as it is used to be in ST-high, it only inverts it
- once.
-
- So I searched for a reason and found two things: One system-variable
- isn't initialized correctly (sshiftmd, it's saying 3 instead of 2) and
- the palette-size of the vdi work_out-field shows 4096 (which is,
- according to Julian F. Reschke, correct, but causes some programs to
- think they don't run in ST-high).
-
- MONOFIX is a patch for the AUTO-folder that hooks itself into trap #2
- (XBRA MFIX) and waits for the v_opnwk-call of the AES. It then sets the
- the palette-size to 2 and initialises sshiftmd correctly. Now Maccel
- works as expected and most programs will run without complaining that
- they are only running in ST-high.
-
- MONOFIX may be freely distributed, the only condition is that both
- files (MONOFIX.PRG and MONOFIX.TXT) are copied completely and unchanged
- (archiving is allowed).
-
- My address:
- Thomas Binder
- Hauptstraße 43b
- 61169 Friedberg/Germany
- InterNet: binder@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
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