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From: ewout@topcat.cbm.commodore.com (Ewout Walraven - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 and OnLine! and ATalkIII
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Date: 29 Sep 90 23:24:13 GMT
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detert@lognet2.hq.aflc.af.mil (CMS David K. Detert) writes:

>Well, (Marco)
>I just got my A3000 and am finally ready to give up on OnLine!.  I still
>like many of its features and never found anyone with ATalkIII to try out,
>so I've been sticking with it.  Anyway, in 2.0 mode the screen that OnLine!
>opens is about 4 times as long as workbench.  This has the effect that everyth
>scrolls down off the screen and I have to keep clearing the screen so I can
>see what is happening.  I suppose this is caused by the new display modes, etc.,
>but it is annoying and I DON'T like having to reboot into 1.3.  BTW.  Thanks
>to whomever wrote that reboot utility that lets you do that WITHOUT having
>to power down/up.  Anyway, what I'd like to know is:
>1.  Does anyone KNOW what is specifically wrong with OnLine! (Platinum)
>that causes this behavior?  And, is there a fix?

Online! was ment to take advantage of an A2024, if available. Unfortenatly
the way they checked for that got slightly mangled somewhere, so they
opened accidently a non-scrollable 1008 x 800/1024 screen. Don't give up
on Online! for this reason. Get in touch with MSS about this.