ADPro and Picasso?

[Barry_Einstein]

I am a registered ADPro user and a happy Picasso II owner using an A3000
and 3.1 OS.

I run into problems when trying to use ADPro to display to the Picasso.

Using the Picasso Saver is fine but using Picasso Render Screen modes
causes a software failure and using the Load and Show Picasso arexx
script loads the file but doesn't display (ADPro can't display image...)

What (if anything) am I doing wrong here?

Thanks for any replies.
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[J Eric Chard]

>
>Using the Picasso Saver is fine but using Picasso Render Screen modes
>causes a software failure and using the Load and Show Picasso arexx
>script loads the file but doesn't display (ADPro can't display image...)
>
>What (if anything) am I doing wrong here?
>
>Thanks for any replies.
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>Barry Einstein | Commodore may be DEAD...
>eins...@dorsai.dorsai.org | But my AMIGA is still ALIVE!
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I can confirm this, although PICASSO SAVE also often trashes my system
with a guru errro.

My system is good for approx. 5 renders to the PIC before it crashes.
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[Andy Jones]

Axel Bruns (sn...@softtech.brisnet.org.au) wrote:

: Unfortunately, ADPro has a problem with rendering to any screen mode the
: Picasso displays in chunky pixel mode, AFAIK. I think you can overcome most

v2.53 of the Picasso Monitor actually fixed this problem, of course it
introduced a whole load of other problems and VillageTronic told everyone to
stop using it. Hopefully the next version of the driver will be ok...

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[Barry_Einstein]

Axel Bruns (sn...@softtech.brisnet.org.au) wrote:
: G'day !

: On Mon, 5 Sep 1994, Je...@cup.portal.com (J Eric Chard) wrote about Re: ADPro
: and Picasso?:

: >> Using the Picasso Saver is fine but using Picasso Render Screen modes

: >> causes a software failure and using the Load and Show Picasso arexx script

: >> ----- Barry Einstein | Commodore may be DEAD...

: >> eins...@dorsai.dorsai.org | But my AMIGA is still

: Jcp> I can confirm this, although PICASSO SAVE also often trashes my
: Jcp> system with a guru errro.

: Unfortunately, ADPro has a problem with rendering to any screen mode the
: Picasso

: displays in chunky pixel mode, AFAIK. I think you can overcome most of the
: problems by choosing to render to a non-chunky mode instead (i.e., a
: 128-colour screen instead of 256 colours), or by turning off CHUNKY in the
: monitor file tool types.

: Rendering to HiColour and TrueColour modes should work fine, though,
: doesn't it ?

: Ciao
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I had no idea that CHUNK mode could have been the culprit! I'll check it
out ASAP.

I haven't seen a "HiColor" option yet but TrueColor works fine now that
I'm using 3.1 8-)

Any idea why the LoadandSavePicasso option doesn't work?

(I get Adpro can't display Image...)

Do I have to edit the arexx script in some way?

Thanks again for your response.

I guess being down under gives you a better perspective on these things!

G'day to you!
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[Axel Bruns]

[James Topper]

Ei> I had no idea that CHUNK mode could have been the culprit! I'll check it
Ei> out ASAP.

I just got my 3000 upgraded to 3.1. I have a Picasso II board
installed as well. I have no problem with running the monitor file in CHUNKY
mode and using it with the latest version of ADPro, 2.5. I had a problem with
it a few months ago, crashing. I checked out the saver files in ADPro and
found out I must have had an older version of the file. The current picasso
saver file I'm using is 2.3.10, and the file size is 15804.

Ei> I haven't seen a "HiColor" option yet but TrueColor works fine now that
Ei> I'm using 3.1 8-)

I have been experimenting with ADPro's screens and found that I can
render in a window now at 256 colors instead of 16. I have it set up to a
custom screen, 256 color. I can still render to the Picasso board if I set
up the render prefs to that, I usually use TrueColor modes.

Jim

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[Axel Bruns]

G'day !

On Thu, 8 Sep 1994, eins...@dorsai.org (Barry_Einstein) wrote about Re: ADPro
and Picasso?:

>> Unfortunately, ADPro has a problem with rendering to any screen mode the

>> Picasso
>> displays in chunky pixel mode, AFAIK. I think you can overcome most of

>> Rendering to HiColour and TrueColour modes should work fine, though,
>> doesn't it ?

edo> I haven't seen a "HiColor" option yet but TrueColor works fine now
edo> that I'm using 3.1 8-)

Um, by HiColour I mean the modes ADPro offers as "TRUECOLOR:1024x768x16" or
similar.

But how did upgrading to 3.1 change your TrueColour 24 bits modes ?

edo> Any idea why the LoadandSavePicasso option doesn't work?

No idea. I never bothered much - I prefer setting the screenmode in the
requester and pressing "Execute".

edo> Do I have to edit the arexx script in some way?

Possibly.

edo> I guess being down under gives you a better perspective on these
edo> things!

Well, take a closer look at my .sig - I've only been here for two and a
half months so far. :-) But back in Germany I worked with Village Tronic,
so I guess that helped...