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From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mini Desktop
Message-ID: <1790@mwca.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:30:58 GMT
References: <21590@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA
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In article <21590@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> felner@iiic.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner) writes:
>Yesterday a strange thing happened to me. When I booted my 520ST, only
>a quarter of the whole screen was used. I got a mini desktop in the top left
>quarter of the screen with the samll font being used for the menus and other
>text, but the standard size desktop icons...

I've seen that sort of behavior with a multisync monitor. Something having
to do with the detection circuitry getting confused, and using the wrong
horizontal scan rate, so the resulting image only took up half the screen
(and was half as wide). This was strictly a function of the monitor, the
computer had no idea anything was going on.

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