Foebane Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 On the Altirra emulator for Atari 8-Bit, I can boot into it with roms, disks and other media types and they all boot in fullscreen, but when I try to boot a tape load, it opens in a window instead, even if I set the /f parameter for fullscreen. Is there a way of booting tapes in fullscreen? Some setting I can't see? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baktra Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) With the following command lines: altirra c:\users\baktra\a8\pokus_changed.cas /f altirra "C:\Users\baktra\a8\filtered\turborom_zestaw4_strona_A.wav" /f I can confirm the behavior with Altirra 4.00; the emulator doesn't go to fullscreen With Altirra 4.10-test26, the emulator goes to the fullscreen as expected. So perhaps, you can switch to the development version, if you can. Edited November 29, 2022 by baktra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 It's probably to do with the tape image loader mini window that forces it back to windowed mode. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Yeah, so the backstory behind this is that loading a tape spawns a progress window in case it takes a long time, like decoding a large WAV file. Unfortunately, native Windows UI doesn't work in exclusive fullscreen mode, so this forces an exit back to windowed mode. Creating custom UI for exclusive fullscreen is a lot of work, so as a mitigation in 4.10-test I suppressed the progress dialog when exclusive fullscreen is active. That having been said, windowed/borderless fullscreen doesn't have this issue and is recommended over exclusive fullscreen in most cases. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baktra Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Perhaps using OSD to indicate the decoding process would be worth considering. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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