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

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Julian Reschke-FJR010 wrote:

> > 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.

Not correct. Resources designed under MTOS/N.AES/Geneva/oAESis will also
look fine under plain TOS, as long as you don't use colour-icons.

> 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.

Usually not. The usable area of the object decreases, so there's a pretty
good chance that some objects will not be properly rendered if you do
this.


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