Re: [hatari-devel] 8-bit VDI mode support

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 20.8.2025 20.55, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 20/08/2025 à 00:14, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> > Besides the virtual INF file improvements I mailed about yesterday 
> > (but did not receive myself from list), attached is 8-bit support for 
> > VDI mode.
> >
> > I'm not sure how useful it's though, because it naturally works only 
> > on TT and Falcon, and one can create larger modes e.g. with Videl Inside.
> >
> > Comments?  (on its usefulness vs. changes needed)
>
> I'm not using VDI at all , so I'll let other people give their opinion :)


I didn't receive Thomas' reply, but got it from archive:

> The changes look sane ... but since VDI mode is not working right
> in Falcon mode anyway (unless you use EmuTOS), this is mainly for
> TT mode, I guess. So it's quite of limited use, but we could maybe
> give it a try at least, and if it is causing too much trouble,
> disable it later again?

Pushed.

Yes, on Falcon VDI mode works only with EmuTOS, and EmuTOS resolution 
dialog already provides fairly good selection of 256-color resolutions.

I'll increase the size limits for 8-bit mode resolution a bit from the 
max limit used for lower bit-depths (300KB), so that VDI mode actually 
will allow a bit larger 8-bit TT/Falcon resolutions than EmuTOS.


	- Eero