Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3

[Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>]

on 12/7/09 4:47 AM, Paul Wratt wrote:

>> I don't understand why no one ever seems to use vq_scrninfo(). If it
>> has problems on some hardware, that should be easy to patch. Applying
>> patches once, in one place, is certainly better than having every
>> application doing it's own kind of detection code (often less than
>> perfect).
>> 
> sound like a good time to use "vq_scrninfo()." What are its impact for
> non-fVDI's

Because in NVDI its incomplete, or broken or however you wish to label it.
Ozk discovered a problem with the call so he wrote that detection code in
XaAes.  I discovered the same issue later when trying to use the same call
in my VNC app, then also abandoned it. At the time ozk confirmed my findings
which now I can't remember exactly since its been so long ago.

Someone want to patch NVDI?  That would be a nice fix. It thats a reference
to patching the NVDI binary itself or making a tiny TSR to replace
q_scrninfo() that would run after NVDI in the auto folder?

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Lonny Pursell    http://www.bright.net/~gfabasic/