aduncan@rhea.trl.oz (Allan Duncan) (01/29/91)
I tried a post a while back, but _saw_ no response, so I'll try again.
I have been evaluating this CBM UK distributed product for use with the
great heap of educational software. It seems to work well enough except
for the screen handling - some of the rows of text are garbled. To
describe what happens, imagine a line of text sliced horizontally at its
half height, and the two sections transposed, or maybe do this with two
lines of text and interchange with them for added unreadability!
The two samples I had were Aztec/MasterWord and PicFile, whether it is
unrepresentative or not I don't know. Have any of you in the UK tried
this thing out on _real_ Educational software?
Allan Duncan ACSnet a.duncan@trl.oz
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Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) (02/04/91)
I've been using this program for quite a while now. I quite like it. It works with _all_ legal programs - BUT something is not _quite_ right with the mode 7 emulation. This is the only problem I've found with it. I wish it supported direct write to screen memory, a'la WORDWISE+ - I love that WP:-) It would also be nice if it emulated hardware interupts. If if did then DIY code could get round the screen handling. Oh well. As I say the only problem I have found is with mode 7 - I just switch to mode 6 - OK since ram space is _alot_ less limited than on the real thing. BTW. Alot of sideways ROMS work in ram. ***************************************************************************** * Stuart Millington * "A Mind Is A Terrible Thing, Remember * * UUCP:...!mcsun!ukc!warwick!phupp * That." - David Bryan, Bon Jovi * * JANET:phupp@uk.ac.warwick.cu ***************************************** * ? :phupp%warwick.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk * *****************************************************************************