[GEM Development] GEM/5.0 video driver disassembled

Ben A L Jemmett ben.jemmett at ukonline.co.uk
Sun Jan 20 05:13:28 PST 2008


Quoting John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk>:
>   Incidentally, there seems to be a bug in current releases of the
> 'universal' EGA/VGA driver (SDUNI9.VGA / SDUNI10.VGA / SDUNI11.BS). It works
> fine in colour modes, but in mono modes the menus stay on the screen and
> don't get removed. I shall look into this at some point.

I think I've seen this behaviour before somewhere...  *thinks*  Ah yes, the
Amstrad PC1512 driver when running on something that isn't a PC1512 (i.e.
640x200x2).  Perhaps a bug triggered if the driver reports 16 colours but only 2
work?

-- 
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
http://flatpack.microwavepizza.co.uk/

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