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Re: SuperVidel, here are you!?
Posted by: PeP May,17.2013-11:26 

Yes, like Beetle says - there's an annoying bug in XaAES that is very obvious when using the SuperVidel.

What happens is the following:

1. XaAES reads the "video"-entry (modecode) from xaaes.cnf.
2. If it is a VGA mode, XaaES then checks if this is a >=16bpp resolution, and concludes that there are no 80 column truecolor VGA modes, and forces a 40 column mode.

This is a design mistake in XaAES, because the AES is not supposed to know about XBIOS internals, or details about what modecodes are available. It's supposed to use existing calls and evaluate things based on those existing calls. So there is a mistake in the XaAES code (k_init.c, if I remember correctly).

There are two workarounds for this:

1. Set the modecode as if it was an RGB mode (clear the VGA flag, and flip the VERTFLAG). On a SuperVidel, this is the very same resolution, and XaAES won't execute the code that screws up the modecode.

or

2. Remove the "video" entry in xaaes.cnf. Edit SV.INF (SuperVidel config file) and set the modecode on the "default" line. Basically, if the AES does not supply a modecode (which is the case, since you removed the "video" entry in xaaes.cnf), it will use this default mode instead.

(there is also an "override" modecode option in SV.INF, which will force the use of a particular modecode for the AES, but this means you can't switch resolution in the desktop - which would be a pity since I did write a new multi-lingual resolution dialog for you guys)







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Super Videl, where are you? sqward Feb,28.2013-15:46
  Re: Super Videl, where are you? Beetle Mar,03.2013-11:21
    Re: Super Videl, where are you? instream Mar,03.2013-21:11
      Re: Super Videl, where are you? saulot Apr,26.2013-23:09
        Re: Super Videl, where are you? Beetle Apr,27.2013-21:42
          Re: Super Videl, where are you? mac-falcon Apr,30.2013-14:26
            Re: Super Videl, where are you? Beetle May,01.2013-18:05
              Re: Super Videl, where are you? Instream May,02.2013-20:25
                Re: Super Videl, where are you? mac-falcon May,02.2013-23:15
                  Re: Super Videl, where are you? ggn May,11.2013-23:44
                    Re: Super Videl, where are you? sqward May,14.2013-17:28
                      Re: Super Videl, where are you? mac-falcon May,15.2013-21:07
                        Re: SuperVidel, here are you!? Beetle May,15.2013-22:11
                          Re: SuperVidel, here are you!? Viking May,16.2013-00:34
                            Re: SuperVidel, here are you! Beetle May,16.2013-19:31
                              Re: SuperVidel, here are you! PeP May,17.2013-11:55
                              Re: SuperVidel, here are you! mikro Jun,29.2013-14:59
                                Re: SuperVidel, here are you! Beetle Jun,30.2013-23:12
                                  Re: SuperVidel, here are you! mikro Jul,01.2013-14:58
                                    Re: SuperVidel, here are you! pixben Jul,05.2013-16:16
                                      Re: SuperVidel, here are you! evil Jul,05.2013-17:28
                                      Re: SuperVidel, here are you! huggyone76 Jul,05.2013-20:12
                                    Re: SuperVidel, here are you! Instream Jul,07.2013-00:27
                                      Re: SuperVidel, here are you! mikro Jul,07.2013-04:54
                                        Re: SuperVidel, here are you! PeP Jul,13.2013-11:28
                                      Re: SuperVidel, here are you! evil Jul,07.2013-12:05
                                        Re: SuperVidel, here are you! Instream Jul,10.2013-22:58
                                          Re: SuperVidel, here are you! evil Jul,12.2013-18:12
                                            Re: SuperVidel, here are you! Instream Jul,12.2013-23:07
                                            Re: SuperVidel, here are you! Instream Jul,12.2013-23:20
                                            Re: SuperVidel, here are you! Instream Jul,12.2013-23:25
                                              Re: SuperVidel, here are you! evil Jul,12.2013-23:36
                                                Re: SuperVidel, here are you! Instream Jul,14.2013-13:13
                                                  Re: SuperVidel, here are you! evil Jul,14.2013-19:58
                          Re: SuperVidel, here are you!? PeP May,17.2013-11:26


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