[GEM Development] Update to SETTINGS.APP

[Thomas Clayton]

I remember the GEM 1.x patch's existence. Until three weeks ago I held onto EGA cardS and one monitor - just so that i could compare (never did) the two resolutions (EGA and VGA). Still have some cardS. I'm pretty sure I 'set the monitor free' (i.e. gave it to my friend Jeff who runs Unitec Recycling).


Tom Clayton

--- On Thu, 9/8/11, John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> From: John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: [GEM Development] Update to SETTINGS.APP
> To: gem-dev at simpits.org
> Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 6:24 PM
> 
>   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>
> 
> -- 
> John Elliott
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