Re: [MiNT] XaAES tempering with XBIOS resolution

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 16:13 +0100, Miro Kropáček wrote:

> Pep once tried to point out at this and the code is still there. So is
> there anybody in the list making a sense of this? (for non-technical
> audience, this code checks, whatever resolution is, if we're running
> on VGA and hicolor and if yes, force it from 80 columns to 40, i.e.
> 320 pixels, i.e. half resolution which makes not very nice things once
> you want to specify 1920x1080x16bit, right?)

Well, is 80-column hi-colour VGA a valid mode on a standard
Falcon/Videl? I'd say it isn't. The question is whether XaAES should
bother or not.

Jo Even