Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

2009/12/8 Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:
> Paul Wratt a écrit :
>>
>> this is NOT pixel detection problem:
>> http://paulwratt.110mb.com/atarist/mint/1.17-cur/cvs-20090828/
>
> Sorry to insist, I don't know much about XaAES, and I'm totally lost with
> your test environments and versions, but the following point may be
> important.
>
> In ARAnyM 0.9.8 and previous versions, the VDI function vro_cpyfm() was
> buggy because a bug inside SDL for Intel x86. This was about an assembler
> routine that didn't backup an internal flag in the CPU.
>
> For me, using ARAnyM 0.9.8 on Windows XP, this problem caused the following
> effects :
> - EasyMiNT boots well into XaAES
> - I open a file window and move it to bottom-right
> - Quickly, the window contents is filled with a buggy bitmap (sometimes)
> - ARAnyM crashes promptly
>
> This bug caused a random memory overwrite. For me the windows displayed
> rubbish or even crashed, it would be reasonable to think that this bug could
> produce the transparent window effect you experiment.
>
> This problem has totally been fixed in ARAnyM 0.9.9.
> So if your problem is still here with ARAnyM 0.9.9, it is something else.
>
> --
> Vincent Rivière
>
The screen shot is "mint/1.17-cur/cvs-20090828" which is a CVS compile
done by Alan, available from:
http://www.freemint.org/
The setup was ARAnyM 0.9.9, using AFROS 8.12 with "1-17-cur" replaced
with the above downloaded material, using the provided MINTARA.PRG as
the new BOOTSTRAP

Paul