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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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800x600 in ShapeShifter = garbled screen
« on: May 31, 2006, 06:00:07 PM »
640x480 is a bit too small for my liking, and 1024x768 is extremely slow. So I thought I would try 800x600. The screenmode works when I test it in screenmode prefs, but if I try to use it for ShapeShifter the display is all corrupt, and though I can see that there is something on the screen, it is impossible to use. I find this strange as the screenmode does work in Workbench!

Any ideas?

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: 800x600 in ShapeShifter = garbled screen
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2006, 06:16:25 PM »
Hmmm weird. Well it turns out the slowness was not caused by the resolution, but the colour depth. 640x480x32 was just as slow as 1024x768x32. So I created a 1024x768x8 screenmode and it works in 1024x768, and it's really fast :-D

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10