#Picasso II
25-Aug-95 05:27:22
Sb: #209635-#Picasso II
Fm: Clint Woeltjen@VRLI 75300,3706
To: Ian J. Einman 74271,2766
Ian:
The current version of VistaPro (3.05) doesn't handle running on many
graphics boards properly. The next version of VistaPro will support a variety
of boards and shouldn't fall apart on the boards that it doesn't support. The
problem with version 3.05 is that at the time it was released the test in
AmigaDOS for AGA which Commodore recommended always returned false, so I had to
test for library revision instead. Commodore assured me at the time that this
was "safe" as there were no plans for AmigaDOS 3.0 on non-AGA machines.
Unfortunately, most board manufacturers used the latest (>=v39)
graphics.library as a base to work from, so VistaPro thinks that any machine
with a graphics card is an AGA machine and attempts to act accordingly.
Since that time I have found a test which does work, so that VP will not
have fits with libraries >=v39, however this has not yet been released. I am
still in the process of adding code to handle the Picasso, Retina and
Opalvision boards directly. I expect this to be ready sometime in November in
VistaPro version 3.10.
Clint <Chaocity>