Re: Border fx, Manager/Switchit, etc

[jsanford@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Sanford)]

In article <1mlgnlINNb6q@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu
(James L. Brookes) writes:
 
>I'm not sure of the answers to your questions, but have you taken a look at
>the "border text scroll" routine that Mr Z released?  Reading the source
>reveals that to get a proper value back from the horizontal counter you
>have to be at 1mhz.  There might also be some other information you can use
>there too...
 
I might be wrong, but I think the horizontal counter ($C02F) should return
the correct value at faster speeds, the only reason Mr. Z is at 1mhz is
because he just gets synchronized with $C02F then constantly changes
border color, and at 1mhz he knows how long each instruction will take, so
it doesnt get screwed up, I havent messed with horizontal FX much, but you
should be able to do it at 2.8mhz, but you probably wouldnt be able to get
as small of width "pixils", cause you'd constantly have to re-synchronize
yourself...


SwitchIt!/Manager:

When I tried out the SwitchIt demo, everything, or near everything I tried
to do resulted in bombing my computer.  Sorry Jawaid, I dont remember
exactly everything I did, but it was pretty nasty--straight to the monitor.

To me, The Manager sounds pretty cool, it sounds like it can do everything
SwitchIt can do, plus the option to have other prog's windows open and
just click on them.

Well, enough from me...  :)

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