Hey Gary,
I will certainly give it a go. My own experience is neither the Super or
Lucid ROMs, Lucid on either, cooperate with the DVI. Disappointing, but
not so much a game changer. UC though, if Lucid will take advantage of
the extra space, could be a big help. I hope, but suspect the opposite
will happen, Lucid will use the new space.
Thanks again fir all your hard work.
God Bless,
GregS <><
On 9/8/2026 9:48 PM, Gary Weber wrote:
Hi Greg,
I appreciate you testing it! Regarding compatibility with Optom ROM
code, however, I doubt Ultrascreen would support it directly. It
first depends on whether they use what's called a "trampoline" bounce
to access the main system ROM's internal screen output and character
input routines, or if they've implemented their own hardware control
in the Option ROM. If they are using their own output routines and
bypassing the system ROM through a trampoline, they'd be bypassing all
of the hooks that Ultrascreen uses to interface with the display anyway.
Secondly, assuming Lucid uses the trampoline method to call into the
system ROM for screen output, the Lucid spreadsheet itself I think
only supports 40x8 screen size anyway, i.e. it doesn't even play nice
with the Disk-Video Interface that gives you 80x25. (Maybe someone
else can confirm.) So it may be you could work with the spreadsheet,
but it would only make use of 40 columns by 8 lines of your nice 60x10
display.
But, as they say, anything is possible in software with enough brute
force engineering effort (i.e. support added to Ultrascreen, Lucid
being disassembled and recompiled with tweaks, etc!)
Gary
