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- ModePro's (almost never) Frequently Asked Questions AND Problems...
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- Problem: DPaintV guru's
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- Solution: Turn off the Interleave option. DPaintV despite being RTG
- compliant, doesn't like Interleaved Amiga bitmaps.
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- Q: Since version 4.46, promoting using the "Force Planar" and "Interleaved"
- options makes a program act weird or crash.
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- A: Since version 4.46 the "Force Planar" no longer ignores the "Interleaved"
- option. Some programs (like DPaint 5) will not work with interleaved
- bitmaps.
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- Q: Why does the palette requester not work correctly on true color
- screens (15, 16 or 24 bit), the palette won't change?
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- A: Actually you are changing the palette. However, the palette of
- a true color screen doesn't work the same as an 8 bit screen for
- example. The palette of a true color screen cannot update graphics
- that were previously drawn, it will ony affect new rendering.
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- Q: The backdrop color requester won't open.
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- A: Either your system is out of memory, or more likely, the screen
- ModeProPres is opened on is out of free pens for rendering, if so
- either set Workbench to use a screen with more colors, or free pens
- on the Workbench screen by turning of backdrops, or open ModeProPrefs
- on a public screen with more free pens.
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- Q: What's a "free" pen
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- A: A "free" pen is a color register (or index, or pen) that is not
- being used by other programs.
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- Q: Why can't ModePro promote this game/program?
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- A: ModePro can only promote programs that use the OS to open their
- screens, most games and some applications do not use the OS at
- all.
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- Q: Why does program X crash?
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- A: I don't know why! Unfortunately I don't have access to many Amiga
- programs, so I can't explain why some programs fail to work.
- Chances are, the program is very old, and very dependant on the Amiga
- custom chips.
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- Q: Why does the WB act strange/crash/lockup with the WBPROMOTABLE
- option set?
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- A: Again, I don't know why! the Workbench hates being tampered with.
- Hence the reason for the warning in the docs.
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- Q: The "Force Planar" option doesn't do anything, why?
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- A: Recent versions of CyberGfx seem to have made this option ineffective.
- I am considering a kludge to get around this problem, however, it may
- likely create a large load on the CPU, and likely will be unusable.
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