[hatari-devel] Stone tower ST demo and Octalyzer on real machines?

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

On lauantai 02 huhtikuu 2011, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> > And when checking STE Octalyzer:
> > 	http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=15989
> > 
> > When a (4-channel) MOD is played, the screen occasionally annoyingly
> > flickers.  Does that happen on a real machine?
> 
> If you configured Octlayser (notice the S and not Z (Octalyzer is an
> Amiga program)) correct it shouldn't flicker on a real STe. Eg the
> number of nops to wait for the lower border removal. It is configurable
> to be able to support accelerators. Then it also depends what replay
> routine you have loaded. Some replay routines uses the blitter and if
> the blitter is active during the time the lower border is going to be
> removed, it will flicker that vbl.

Thanks, I corrected the name in the compat list and added info that unless
Octalyser is configured correctly, it can flicker.


Btw. Did you have yet time to test the patches I mailed for:
- disabling input grabbing
  (which on Linux/X didn't see to have effect)
- allowing --desktop to work also for ST/STE screens
?

	- Eero