Marcel,
sorry to contradict again ;-) :
uqlx can run a JS ROM in 800x600 without PE quite well.
But whether that JS ROM then still counts as a "Standard QL ROM" after being 
runtime patched heavily by uqlx is highly debatable....
uqlx has a quite sophisticated (mmap-based) mechanism to detect access to real 
hardware - even by the OS itself. It then bails out to the host OS (I think, by 
patching Trap#x with Line-A-and-F instructions) and rewrites large parts of the 
(here: console) drivers through native code (that's the runtime patching). 
Don't know how you do that in QPC.
But it doesn't expose Minerva's second screen for reasons unknown to me.

Cheers,
Tobias

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Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Help: Function to tell whether display is better than 
QL standard
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:37:06 +0100
From: Marcel Kilgus <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

[email protected] wrote:
> Yes, I'm sure ;-)
> Mostly because I have to re-install PE from Dilwyn's site whenever I set up a 
> new Linux box....

Yes, you're right. I already had the suspicion that Minerva was
written cleanly enough to support different screen layouts (had to
really, because of the dual screen feature). But that's the only case,
no standard QL rom can support different resolutions without the PE
replacing its CON driver. That I'm pretty sure of ;)

Marcel

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