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Offline nbache

@Louis Dias:

In OS4, DOS was changed to allow filenames with a length of 255, if the filesystem supports them.

In case that's what you were thinking of.

Best regards,

Niels
 

Offline nbache

In regards to P96 for classic, wondering 2 things when comparing to OS4.0:

1) OS4.0 has a CyberVisionPPC driver -- is this ppc native and if not would it work on 68k?
Yes, it is PPC native, and no, it won't work on 68k. In spite of the name, it does also work with the BVisionPPC card on the A1200, but again only PPC native.

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And wondering why P96 on 68k doesn't have driver if it was developed on OS4?
It might be because the CyberVision cards were developed and/or marketed by the same company who had the P96 competitor CyberGraphics. It wasn't until later that P96 got to be a de facto standard.

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2) For the screen dragging in P96, this has probably been discussed but wondering what was done in OS4 to support screen dragging?   Was this an enhancement in the OS or P96 to enable that?
I believe it was first and foremost in layers.library, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were also stuff done in intuition and other places. Also not that by now (4.1FE), P96 does not exist as a separate entity, it has been completely integrated into the OS (graphics.library mostly, IIRC).

Best regards,

Niels