Re: [hatari-devel] Re: Feature request: allow to specify "-d" with autostart

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 05/11/2017 11:50 PM, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 11/05/2017 à 21:38, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> > > At the moment, autostart will provide a default desktop.inf set to low
> > > res = 40 columns ; do you think it could be possible to add an option to
> > > choose the autostart resolution (low or med) ?
> >
> > There are few options for solving your problem.
> >
> > 1. If there's an existing desktop/newdesk/emudesk INF
> >     file, Hatari provides (virtually) modified version
> >     of it that just adds autostart stuff
> >
> > 2. User can override the resolution
> >
> > 1) would already allow you to configure things to
> > start in medium resolution.  I think it would
> > be in general be better, that way you set it just
> > once, and it works automatically afterwards.
> >
> > (Not sure when I have time to look at it though.)
>
> I was wondering if it was possible to patch "on the fly" the desktop.inf
> included in tos.c to put either low or med res ?

vdi.c has code for patching on-disk INF files
(see end of the vdi.c).

That code could be used also for autostart, but I
think at the same time VDI code should be changed
also to provide virtual INF file like autostart does,
instead of modifying the one on disk.


	- Eero