Re: Bernie the rescue in OSX

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On Sun, 22 May 2005 23:11:52 -0400, Mitchell Spector
><mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>    On a slight tangent, is anyone working on porting KEGS 0.91 over to 
>>Windows? "KEGS32", while despite being excellent, is based on 0.60
>>and the author hasn't released an update in about 3 and a half years.
>
>A Windows and Mac binary of KEGS is now included with the source, or
>you can just download the source, from the KEGS web site at:
>
>    http://kegs.sourceforge.net/

    Ah, thanks for that tip. Just gave it a try and it works, but I really
miss the interface (and extra features) from KEGS32.

    There's no option for simulated scanlines (that really makes all the
difference in getting an authentic visual look), no on-the-fly way to set
system speed or mount disk images, no full-screen mode, no way to
hide the bottom 7-line status bar. And mounting disk images is also 
more tedious than KEGS32.

    I do like that the PC mouse pointer disappears in the video window
and the benefits of 0.91 (like the border animation! Doesn't quite work
for the bouncing text in the GS-IRC Demo though, but it's a good start).
I couldn't get 3200 color pictures to display, any luck on your end?
    
>I've been running KEGS under Windows for quite some time now.  I've
>even put a shortcut to KEGS both on my desktop and in my Start menu.
>I also used the SCSI card in my PC with CiderPress to pull the
>contents of my entire hard drive from my real IIgs into disk images on
>my PC.

    I have disk-images of my IIgs hardisk partitions copied over as well,
though I think at the time I used the serial port to transfer them over
(took me at least a couple of days). I'll probably stick with KEGS32 for
now, but it's nice to have access to 0.91.

Mitchell Spector