Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury!chem194
From: chem194@canterbury (John Davis, programmer at large, chemistry department)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Balance of Power - no mouse pointer?
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.105011.9515@canterbury>
Date: 24 Oct 90 21:50:11 GMT
References: <4464@swi.swi.psy.uva.nl>
Organization: University of Canterbury
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In article <4464@swi.swi.psy.uva.nl>, leeuw@swi.psy.uva.nl (Leeuw Jacco de) writes:
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> 
> A friend of mine recently bought Balance of Power (not the 1990 Edition).
> He noticed that there is no mouse pointer when the B.O.P screen is active.
> Now he has to click on the WB screen to make the pointer visible and then
> switch to the B.O.P screen. This is no fun, you can understand that... 

It's not a bug so much as an oversight, the original BOP made the ( then
common ) mistake of not _explicitly_ locating things like the mouse 
pointer image data in chip mem. Hence, on a machine with fast memory
you'd get a non-existent pointer due to the data not being accesible
to the custom chips. 
 
The solution is simple - run the program thru either FixHunk or ( better
still ) use the HunkLab option on PowerPacker, and force ALL data hunks
into chip memory ( actually, if you feel keen, use the interactive
mode on fixhunk , find which data hunk holds the pointer data and force
ONLY that hunk to chip mem - this will help minimise chip mem
wastage ).

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