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Thanks François, I was doing something wrong.

I now managed the 512x384 in 256 colors and the 1024x768 in 4 colors

Maskenlos wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 5:47 pm When you load PE and start an application, can you then move the window of the application to the lower (black) part of the screen?
Looks ok to me, but I am not so familiar with the screen things.

Stephan

Yes I moved a window and it goes all the way down, it's ok

Yes it works, just needed to redefine the windows, here at 512x384 I want to see if I can get 1024x768 now


It looks it needs some vertical shift

This is the situation:

I use the compiled from the source files SMSQE at the smsq\smsq\aurora directory and the modified to at some level simulate aurora QLion core.
I boot to the smsq/e and it is recognised as a super gold card with hermes machine 13, print disp_type returns 5 = aurora QL mode ...

yes, I haven't done this for the 1024x768 mode but it's easy to add palette choice.

I don't use the compiled smsq/e version from mister anymore, I only tried it to test that I could run smsq/e. I think the mister version as Marcel mentions is the same as the public one.
I used the public source smsq/e version and emulated the aurora registers and set the same vram addresses, I ...

Gimp did the dithering, I was impressed too

Thanks, and 1024x768 4 colors

I added 2 new screen resolutions

-512x384 256 colours

l512384.jpg


-1024x384 16 colours

l1024384.jpg


I tried aurora emulation for smsq/e, it works but doesn't support the higher than 512x256 resolutions, no good so I quit trying.
It currently works with a pretty standard version of gold ...

I don't know the aurora but I don't think so, I could maybe make an aurora compatible video mode, would the gold card smsqe version use it if I emulate the identification process?