Black mouse pointer in WHDLoad Games

manic23 · 14 April 2013, 08:13

There are a few WHDLoad games that when played, have a black mouse pointer instead of the regular red one. I know this does not sound like a big issue, but on some games if there is a black background you can't see the pointer. Is there a way to force the game to use the regular red pointer in games?

ajk · 14 April 2013, 08:23

Which ones are these? Could try them out. Most of the time games replace the pointer with a graphic of their own anyway.

manic23 · 14 April 2013, 10:00

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Originally Posted by ajk

Which ones are these? Could try them out. Most of the time games replace the pointer with a graphic of their own anyway.

The game in question is the recently released PGA Tour Golf, I have this game and have been playing it for years, StingRay released it recently and did a great job, but for some reason the pointer is black, it is not black with the non WHDLoad version, so im guessing the Slave creation process uses the mouse pointer of the system it is created with?

Codetapper · 14 April 2013, 12:19

Most likely it's due to the BLACKSCREEN macro in the slave. That sets all the colour registers to black so you don't get the ugly AmigaDOS loading windows appearing. But it also makes the mouse pointer completely black and perhaps the game never restores them to proper colours.

manic23 · 14 April 2013, 13:35

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Originally Posted by Codetapper

Most likely it's due to the BLACKSCREEN macro in the slave. That sets all the colour registers to black so you don't get the ugly AmigaDOS loading windows appearing. But it also makes the mouse pointer completely black and perhaps the game never restores them to proper colours.

OK, gotcha, thanks for the explanation.

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manic23 Only Amiga! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: London / UK Age: 53 Posts: 512	Black mouse pointer in WHDLoad Games There are a few WHDLoad games that when played, have a black mouse pointer instead of the regular red one. I know this does not sound like a big issue, but on some games if there is a black background you can't see the pointer. Is there a way to force the game to use the regular red pointer in games?

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14 April 2013, 08:23	#2
ajk Registered User Join Date: May 2010 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1,341	Which ones are these? Could try them out. Most of the time games replace the pointer with a graphic of their own anyway.

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Codetapper 2 contact me: email only! Join Date: May 2001 Location: Auckland / New Zealand Posts: 3,182	Most likely it's due to the BLACKSCREEN macro in the slave. That sets all the colour registers to black so you don't get the ugly AmigaDOS loading windows appearing. But it also makes the mouse pointer completely black and perhaps the game never restores them to proper colours.

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