VistaPro on expanded/RTG systems

[paul1981]

Vistalite is the same IIRC. Unless there's a monitor driver in 'Devs:Monitors' it will simply not run. Or perhaps I'm thinking of VistaPro here...anyway, if anyone has trouble running it then look no further than your monitor drivers.

[paul1981]

@ paul1981

Unfortunately it's not a simple matter of what modes/monitors are available to the system. I've got NTSC, PAL, the Double modes, etc. all in Devs:Monitors, but VistaPro just chokes if the Workbench isn't actually set to one of those modes.

I see. I don't have a graphics card in my A1200, but I remember it not starting with no reason like you, and it was lack of a monitor driver (I was running PAL on a PAL Amiga) that was the issue. So putting the PAL driver in there made it work. And yes, you're correct in that it clones the WB screen mode. I suppose it's doing it in a system legal fashion, but an error message from the program wouldn't have hurt. Perhaps the author wasn't aware of this even?