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From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The 2.0 workbench (questions)
Message-ID: <14872@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 14:04:03 GMT
References: <10739@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
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In article <10739@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (douglas m dyer) writes:
>I am really interested in the 3000.  I just got a demo of 2.0 and am 
>really confused.  There are two questions I have...

There are no demo versions of 2.0.  Currently you can only purchase
the OS with an A3000.  Versions for the other machines will be
available at some future date.

Where did you get this "demo"?

>1) There is a picture in Antic's Amiga+ (vol2 no3 '90) on p.38 of the

I have not seen the picture.

>2) The cursor seemed to stay at some primitive block resolution no matter
>   what I did.  WHy?  Can I set that?

The pointer is rendered in lo-res, non-interlaced pixels, as it is a sprite.
If you are using a hi-res, interlaced display, each pixel of the pointer
will equal four (2x2) pixels of the display.
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