Re: TOSBook etc. (was: Re: TSR blacklist)

[Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>]

joska@nuts.edu%INTERNET wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 Thomas.Much@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> 
> > >Weird 3D in MagiC-AES
> >
> > What's so weird about it? It's more compatible to existing resource files than
> > the MTOS-AES, and if an application supports MTOS correctly (objc_sysvar(6)!),
> > then it should not have any problems with MagiC's 3D effects either.
> 
> Oh yes it does! Many of MagiC's 3D-objects are smaller than the ones
> in all other AESes, so if you design a resource under MagiC you get a
> very unpleasant surprise on Falcon-TOS, MultiTOS, N.AES, Geneva or
> oAESis...

Well. But they *will* look ok under plain TOS. So MagiC is more
compatible
to plain TOS than the others.

You might not like that view, but this is the main reason why it was
implemented this way. You can take old GEM applications, set some flags
in the resource, and voil, you've got the 3D look.

Regards, jr