[Coco] VCC direct VHD vs DW

[James Ross]

Robert Gault wrote: 
> I've not seen anyone in this thread mention using the F11 key.
> That makes the VCC screen the size of your monitor. 

Yes ... that is the mode I call "full-screen", I've seen that mode referred to as “maximized” -- but it’s really not. The maximized mode of VCC is when you hit the maximize button in the top-right corner of the window.  The maximized VCC window then fills the screen but keeps the Window border / title / the status bar + Windows taskbar below it. All remain visible. 

Both modes "full-screen" OR “maximized” are stretched out and don’t look right on a wide-screen monitor (bothers some people more than others). 

MAME does not have this problem. 

On a widescreen monitor w/ my recent fix to the VCC aspect ratio  works in maximized mode only. NOT the full-screen (F11) mode.  That is because it's two different modes of DirectX’s DirectDraw mode. The aspect ratio of the full-screen (F11) mode, will never get fixed (since, it would take a complete rewrite of the VCC rendering mode).  But what I hope to do, is make the full-screen mode continue to really be the windowed, maximize mode, but remove the visibility of the border / title / status bar and cover the taskbar, and still remain the proper aspect ratio. 

James

> ... snip ...
> The real value of using DW with VCC, MESS, or a real Coco is not different drives. 

Unless you don't have the CoCoSDC -- then it works to replace real drives!! but almost everyone has a CoCoSDC or two! 

> It is the Internet, MIDI, or Printer access you obtain via Drivewire.

Which is cool, BTW! 

James