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--- short introduction
Games like "Battle Isle" can be installed on HD easily but if you run
them from an AGA-WB-screenmode (like DBLNTSC), the display gets
corrupted, sometimes right at the start, sometimes (and this is the
nastier situation) halfway during playing.
"Ok" I hear you say, we have 42 programs like "KillAGA" or "SetChipRev"
for this purpose. But sometimes you can't get games to work simply with
one of those hardware-hacking-display-thingies. Plus those programs can't
prevent those nasty screen mess-ups halfway during playing. You'll need
to really open your Workbench in PAL or have a PAL-screen at the front
when starting the game.
launchpal gets you around calling "ScreenMode", choosing "PAL:HighRes"
and pushing the "USE"-button. launchpal opens its own PAL-screen, which
is made public and 'clones' the WB-screen by intercepting all windows
which the system (e.g. a virus killer like VirusZ) might decide to open
during you playing the game. This prevents the AmigaOS to ever switch
back to the AGA-moded-WB-screen during the operation of your game and
thus you can play e.g. Battle Isle safely and nicely without any
mess-ups. This "SHANGHAI"-functionality is what I missed in "mscreen",
which is a similar program to mine. "mscreen" also at times decided to
crash my 060-machine, which I didn't like either.
--- tech
launchpal was written using E³ and in a quick'n'dirty fashion. Even
quicker and dirtier than MacTransfEr. It's another hack. Nevertheless,
the source is included.
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Contents of util/misc/launchpal.lha
PERMSSN UID GID PACKED SIZE RATIO CRC STAMP NAME
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[generic] 626 944 66.3% -lh5- 055d Nov 11 1997 launchpal/launchpal
[generic] 528 940 56.2% -lh5- 99e8 Nov 11 1997 launchpal/launchpal.e
[generic] 925 1705 54.3% -lh5- 3f0e Nov 11 1997 launchpal/launchpal.readme
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
Total 3 files 2079 3589 57.9% Nov 15 1997
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