Resolution hell in AmigaOS 3.9

Hobbe · 02 October 2008, 12:57

I have Picasso-powered A4000 working in NTSC mode. After installing AmigaOS 3.9, I was unable to increase the resolution as I normally would in Workbench 3.1 via prefs/screenmode because, for a reason or another, the res it defaulted to was 640x200 and 3.9's menus are way too big for it hence the save/use buttons are off the screen and cannot be reached!

Any hint?

meega · 02 October 2008, 13:04

Right-Amiga and S ?

Ed: hmm... not in the menus here (not using 3.9) but Right-Amiga and A gives you the Save As... requester, so you can create a Preset.

Ed2: You could try increasing the Overscan first, you should be able to get 240 lines, and it has a smaller Prefs interface (again, not using 3.9 here).

alexh · 02 October 2008, 14:09

Is there a Picasso Prefs tool that might be usable?

Charlie · 02 October 2008, 18:35

FWIW: I have a feeling (years ago) when I ran into this problem I dragged 'n dropped another screenmode.prefs file to env-arc & rebooted to fix this 'issue'...

...as a general question: Is there really no way to change screen mode from the command-line from AOS?

Hobbe · 02 October 2008, 20:40

Thanks everyone, the pref replacement trick did it

02 October 2008, 12:57	#1
Hobbe Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Røros Posts: 161	Resolution hell in AmigaOS 3.9 I have Picasso-powered A4000 working in NTSC mode. After installing AmigaOS 3.9, I was unable to increase the resolution as I normally would in Workbench 3.1 via prefs/screenmode because, for a reason or another, the res it defaulted to was 640x200 and 3.9's menus are way too big for it hence the save/use buttons are off the screen and cannot be reached! Any hint?

02 October 2008, 13:04	#2
meega Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oooh what a feeling yeaaah dancing on the ceiling Posts: 314	Right-Amiga and S ? Ed: hmm... not in the menus here (not using 3.9) but Right-Amiga and A gives you the Save As... requester, so you can create a Preset. Ed2: You could try increasing the Overscan first, you should be able to get 240 lines, and it has a smaller Prefs interface (again, not using 3.9 here). Last edited by meega; 02 October 2008 at 13:16.

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