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From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IT WORKS (Was spiders and crabs)
Message-ID: <12883@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 90 23:04:23 GMT
References: <2917@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: dylan@june.cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <2917@mindlink.UUCP> a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang) writes:
>thyssen@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Thyssen) writes:
>> scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) writes:
>> >The spiders and crabs programs recently posted to comp.sources.amiga cause
>> >a solid lockup followed by a guru when rebooting.  Here is the guru number
>> 
>> and as such am using PAL machines. I wonder if this could be the cause.
>
>Yes, this is the cause.  You made an assumption on the screen size when
>positioning the window "crabs" or "spiders" opens when started.  This is the
>
>The easiest solution for users w/NTSC machines is to switch to interlace.

Ah ha!  I have been happily spider and crabbing all along, so couldn't
figure out why other people with NTSC machines, 68030's, 2091's, curly
hair, etc., had so many problems...

Having the (very neat) MegaWB program also increases the vertical height
of the Amiga screen...which allows crabs & spiders to run fine.  Plus
you get that neat "virtual screen" as well.

dylan