Force a WB program onto a new screen?

[apsteinmetz]

I am running on an RTG screen (winuae) with a "modern resolution" but would like to run an old program in that environment that is hard coded for a 320x200 workbench screen with topaz 8 all over. The window contents are illegible.

Is there a utility that could force this program to run on it's own new screen with a user settable screen mode instead of workbench?

I have looked at mode promotion utilities but they assume the program is already launching on it's own screen, not workbench.

Thanks.

[thomas]

Can you give the name of the program please.

[apsteinmetz]

M2Debug. Does that help? <grin>

I am standing up an M2Sprint Modula-2 IDE but the debugger is the only thing I can't modernize.

[thomas]

Originally Posted by apsteinmetz

M2Debug

Not sure if we talk about the same. Knowing nothing about Modula 2, I naively searched Google, found this site: https://m2amiga.claudio.ch/ and downloaded the binaries.

When I run M2Debug, I get a perfect RTG screen using the system font from Prefs/Font, not Topaz 8.

[Etze]

He uses M2Sprint. That's a different compiler package.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

@apsteinmetz

Since you are using WinUAE a good solution would be to use two monitors, one of which is PAL.

This way when you start a PAL program it will automatically move to the PAL screen.

[thomas]

Originally Posted by Etze

He uses M2Sprint. That's a different compiler package.

I found something called M2Sprint Modula 2 1.13 on the EAB file server.

This version of M2Debug opens its own screen, too. So I really don't see the issue.

I started to write a window promotion program. But without being able to reproduce the issue it is difficult to decide which kind of windows should be promoted.

[Ami]

I'm not sure if it helps, but it won't hurt trying this: http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/dprun