[GEM Development] Update to SETTINGS.APP

[Gene Buckle]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, John Elliott wrote:

>
>  I've not been paying GEM the attention I should recently (and there's
> all sorts of GEM-related stuff in my Inbox I still need to get round to).
> But I was recently trying to load FreeGEM on an Amstrad 1640, and found
> a couple of bugs in SETTINGS.APP:
>
> * The colour selectors draw 256 colours, even if the system only supports
> monochrome or 16. And on an XT this is slooooow.
>
> * On a display that was 640 pixels wide (ie, just about anything) the
> colour selectors for cursors could end up partly offscreen.
>
>  So I've fixed them. The new SETTINGS.APP can be downloaded from
> <http://www.seasip.info/Gem/aeses.html>.
>
>  Also, you may remember I did a patch for VGA support in GEM/1? Not
> strictly relevant to this list, but I've now done something similar for
> Windows 1. <http://www.seasip.info/Misc/win1.html>
>

Awesome work John!

g.

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