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From: ins778u@vax4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  c.r. hames)
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Subject: Re: Weird Workbench
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Date: 23 Oct 90 01:57:11 GMT
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In article <2386@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> la@doc.ic.ac.uk (Liaket Ali) writes:
>1) Sometimes when I soft-reboot, my amiga comes up in a 200 line Workbench
>   screen. I have a PAL amiga and therefore I should expect it to display
>   a 256 line screen EVERY time!

     There is a bug in the 1.2/1.3 ROM (timer.device I beleive) that when it
decides whether the machine is PAL or NTSC it sometimes thinks a PAL machine
is NTSC hence only the 200 lines down.  There are programs and bootblocks
that force your machine one way or the other. eg SetPALorNTSC on fish.

>
>2) When manipulating windows on workbench, it is possible to crash the system.
>   How? Well....
>

    1.2/1.3 workbench does have some bugs.

>P.S. Could someone send me details on how to post a program to c.s.a. sources/
>binaries. A friend of mine has written a program which he wishes to put in the
>public domain.

    Just uuencode the program and put a short description on the top then mail
it to the address given on all postings for submissions.

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