#Terraform 2.1
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Denny,
Until Commodore figures out how to ask for a screen with a specific
aspect ratio, we're gonna be _stuck_ with the no mode promotion. We don't
actually care whether the screen is scan doubled, but for some reason the
monitors do. C= understands our dilemma, and we're working on it.
Vic,
But the previous beta worked fine with mode promotion! What was wrong with
that scheme? There are a number of pro users who have monitors that won't
scan down to 15 kHz, and absolutely MUST have promotable software…
Denny,
The 'problem' with the previous scheme was that on a PAL machine, the
aspect ratio went all funny. We believe there is a significant design
oversight in the current C= handling of monitors. We're trying to find
out how to reliably open screens in a specific PIXEL aspect ratio so that
our circles look like circles.
I guess the (not simple) solution is to support the ScreenModes requester,
then.
Denny,
Not only is that not so simple, we're NOT going to scale all the output
so that circles look like circles. C= MUST wake up here and give us a
way to open screens with specific pixel aspect ratios.
Vic,
Perhaps you could open in Multiscan (640×480) mode if running on AGA?
I think running on VGA-level monitors is more important than round
circles… (Not criticising, just offering MHO. 🙂
Denny
Ok, I'll relay that information. When we wrote the code we didn't
expect saying NTSC was going to prevent going to dblNTSC (and it
shouldn't).