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From: cc@xroads.UUCP (Dan McGuirk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ACS GS Demo
Message-ID: <890@xroads.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 89 14:02:11 GMT
References: <891208.01132193.000759@UWEC.CP6> <20476@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: cc@xroads.UUCP (Dan McGuirk)
Organization: Crossroads, Phoenix, AZ 85046
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In article <891208.01132193.000759@UWEC.CP6> S680534@UWEC.BITNET (ROBERT
 TANNER) writes:
>I was wondering if the demo files where corrupted or something else. I got
>the demo out of APPLE2-L and BinSCII it fine and Unshrunk it fine, but
>when it boots, the boot screen is all screwed up.  I know you have to
>reboot each time you run a demo, but is there something wrong with the
>boot or is it a corrupted file?  Thanks.

Nope..  And it has nothing to do with the memory, or 5 1/4" drives, either.. 
The title screen is messed up if you have 80 columns set in the Control
Panel.  It works if you have 40 columns set..  Don't ask me how I figured
that out, but I got it working within a few minutes of looking at it..

The reason you have to reboot is just poor programming, I guess..  Actually,
probably they wrote all the demos separately and then didn't take a lot of
time trying to write the selector, etc..  It might be hard to get back to a
selector after some of those demos, anyway; most of them don't "follow all
the rules"..
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