Re: [hatari-devel] Mouse scaling fix + ST_LOW_RES video boost

[David Savinkoff <dsavnkff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Feb 10, 2013 12:59:10 PM, hatari-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

On sunnuntai 10 helmikuu 2013, David Savinkoff wrote:
>> This patch contains the Hextracker Mouse fix

> Hextracker mouse issue is a bug in Hextracker.  It's Hextracker
> that doesn't scale mouse events properly, not Hatari.  See the
> "Mouse movements limited in Hextracker" mail thread in 2011.
>
> On real ST you don't see Hextracker's Hatari windowed mode issue
> because real ST has always "mouse grab".
>
> I think your "fix" is a mouse slowdown for medium resolution, it
> makes mouse slower than on real ST.  Making Hatari work less like
> real HW is not acceptable.
>
> (After grepping Hatari sources, it might also break TT ST-medrez
> screen scaling.)

I really wanted to disable zooming and came across a hack, I suppose.

>> and gives better perfomance in VGA and RGB quality.
>> Low speed computers really benefit from this. Please consider.
>
> What your patch does is disable zooming for ST, unless TT/Falcon
> "Keep Destop Resolution" option is disabled.  Re-using TT/Falcon
> option for ST is inappropriate, and one can already disable
> zooming in Hatari with "--zoom 1".

Thanks !

Now I suggest that "Disable Zooming" go beside "Keep Desktop Resolution";
and the "TT/Falcon only " comment removed from the SDL window.

Disabling zooming drastically improves the video performance in low-res
RGB and VGA; and makes TV mode look like RGB mode... and faster too
(Low-Res TV mode doubles the horizontal pixels to 640 in zoomed mode).
I've been suffering the terrible view with slow video until now!

Furthermore, my video card and monitor can select more and better
old school video modes below 640 x 480 (which zooming prevents).

David