As some already know, I've been looking for ways to force full screen games into window mode on my Powerbook.

I got a tip, a program called ModePro that's supposed to do this. It's written for classic hardware though.

However, I havn't been able to get it to work. I suspect that I miss a library (asl.library). But I would like to see if anyone else can get this program to work as it's supposed.

http://aminet.net/package/util/cdity/ModePro

asl.library is part of MorphOS and ModePro works fine on it for me...

But ModePro can't force programs to run in a Window instead of a custom screen.
This would require specific code into your games.

It is? I couldn't find it in libs:

I see. Too bad, I thought I had something there.

Can I use it for anything? When I try the different modes nothing happens.

> I couldn't find it in libs:

It resides in MOSSYS:Libs and 'version full' should output "asl.library 51.0 (23.05.13) © 2012 Stefan Stuntz, PPC, MorphOS, DEBUG".

I see. I will look into that. But then I can atleast assume that it does exist. So my other question is still in the open.

If a game was written for a fixed resolution, promoting won't help you.

Sad news indeed. Oh well, thanks for the answers

I don't think this can solve anything, but I just noticed this video of Dragon (which simulates draggable screens) and if you whatch at 1:51 and forward it seems like the screen has been treated as a window.
Could this be applied somehow ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p44mWKSjvLw

Interesting. Might be worth a look