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DosView 1.0 (Announce)

posted by SuperIlu Homepage, Berlin, Germany, 05.11.2023, 14:22

> 1. When invoked with /h or /? print the keybindings as well as the other
> help you're already printing (ie, pgup, pgdown zoom, Z and F full size and
> actual, etc)
 done

> 2. When using the -s option, don't do any autochecking for resolution at
> all (eg, when I just want to convert from .PNG to .WEB I shouldn't need to
> specify -b or any valid resolution, the program should just convert to the
> image format requested without checking for any valid video modes or VESA
> modes, etc)
 doesn't work, allegro needs a screen mode.

> 2a. The specified keys to "move up or down within the image" don't work on
> my system. I tried the UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT arrow keys *and* the numlock
> tenkey equivalents, and I can't scroll the image while in "actual size"
> mode. Is this what is intended by the "scroll right and left within image"
> keys you listed?
 weird, I added the number keys

> 3. On my systems, the "list known available modes" lists modes which don't
> exist in my video BIOS, and when tried to change to these modes, I get
> "mode not supported error". For example, the valid VESA modes on my system
> are 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1920x1080, but the detected modes are
> only 320x240 (doesn't exist in my vBIOS), 640x480,800x600, and 1280x960
> (not a valid mode in my vBIOS VESA table!)
 I added a check in "-l"

> 4. As you said, I don't think Allegro supports changing to a mode which it
> thinks is unavailable (eg, 1920x1080x32, which *is* available on my laptop
> Intel vBIOSes in pure DOS), but is there any way to "fool" Allegro into
> thinking a user-specified VESA resolution mode may be used? Sort of a
> "custom" VESA mode, with the assumption that the user knows what he is
> doing.
 maybe later

check out v1.1
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DosView/releases/tag/v1.1

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