Re: [Poqet PC Plus] inverse display?

["Bill Moy" <billmoy@xxxxxxxxx>]

I cannot be certain about the Plus, but on the regular Classic, Bryan Mason
informed me that an inverse screen switch was impossible.  I believe the
Poqet Technical Manual has been updated to include Chapter 8 Poqet Video
which *may* have more info.  It would be great if the final chapters could
be made available (the Appendix A, B & C) as these may reveal something
unforeseen within BIOS calls?  (??)

When I was experimenting with the Bondwell B310 CGA laptop, I discovered the
undocumented (something like) Fn-F10 would reverse it CGA screen!!
Unfortunately, I haven't discovered anything like it for the Poqet.

My interest was to make Windows3.0 look perfect in addition to other DOS
games that required this inversion.  Although the color of many parts of
Windows can be reversed manually (which made it look almost perfect) some
things are hard color coded, like Control Panel's Font Icon and the
hourglass cursor.  In was also interesting to note that Bondwell's
predecessor, the B200, a duo floppy 8086 counterpart, has a physical switch
on the back that inverted the screen.  If anyone has more info out there,
please enlighten.  -Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven Utcke" <utcke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Poqet PC mailing list" <poqetpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: [Poqet PC Plus] inverse display?


> Hi,
>
> I figured it would be nice to revisit some of the adventures of old
> (monkey island in this case).  However, it seems as if it is
> impossible to tell the Poqet PC Plus to reverse the display, which
> means that the entire game will be in inverse (and hardly playable).
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Sven
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