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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Invasion of the Color Nazis
Message-ID: <7858@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 15:04:02 GMT
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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I'm actually using a Mac for real work for the first time this week -- we
just got a hot new logic analyzer from Gould that uses a Mac for the front
end to the analyzer.  The Mac is a IIcx with the normal color board.

The problem:  I decided that the display was too slow with 8 or 4 bits/color,
but decent at 2 or 1 bit/color.  I really wanted to set up the standard 
display in 2 bits/color to match the colors I usually use on my color Amigas.
Only, the #^*&^%@ system configuration tool refuses to let me change the
black or the white.  Does anyone out there know a way around this?  I am
absolutely convinced that I know my color preferences far better than some
stupid computer.  This machine isn't being what I'd call _User_Friendly_.

Thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

Other than that, I'm impressed with the crispness of the display on this
beast.  I'm depressed about the hard disk -- that thing absolutely crawls;
are they normally slow, or did I perhaps set the thing up incorrectly.  The
user interface is easy to get used to, though the menu selections that I'm
allowed to pick don't always do anything -- I suppose that's the young state
of the application I'm using, rather than a general Apple thing.  The only
other complaint I had was on the "System Error" display.  I found in this
program a very reliable way of getting System Errors, which will hopefully
vanish in future releases.  However, what really annoyed me was the fact that
I first discovered this with all kinds of data in the application that was
unsaved.  Once the System Error came up, everything froze; my only choice being
to reboot.  I'm used to the Amiga equivalent, where I have a chance to save 
whatever didn't crash before rebooting.  Would Multifinder (not enough memory
for this at present) provide some similar capability?  It would be worth it to
me to track down some more memory should this be the case.



-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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