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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: Bug contest
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Date: 5 Feb 91 14:23:11 GMT
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In article <9102050238.AA18080@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu> meekins@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (timothy lee meekins) writes:
>Hey, let's have a strangest most crazy ultimate and weird bug ever found
>contest. I got the idea for the contest because I think I have the winning
>entry.

Gee, that's not fair, is it?? :-)

>Anyways, about a half hour ago, I was working on Z3D. To make things short,
>the entire screen began scroll, almost like a screwed-up vertical hold on a
>TV. very strange. I think the electron beam location is getting screwed
>big time. If anyone has the foggiest notion of how this could happen, let

I have no idea how that could happen, but I'd like to see it!

>me know, it would be neat to take advantage of. The entire screen was
>scrolling, border and all. Oh yeah, how did ACS italicize the text in
>their "HAM mode" demo? They switch from graphics to text mode, so the
>text is hardware text, not graphics, so, how was it italicized? Makes

Where can I get this HAM mode demo? I know in one of the other demos, there
is some text mixed with graphics, and if you go to the CDA menu to change
the border color to something non-black, the border gets really weird.
It's straight until the text mode is switched in, then it jumps about 1/2 in
to the right(or left), then curves back to its original position. You can
also see some of this in the Xmas Split demo. The scrolling text in the borders
is sort of skewed near the top and so is the french flag.

>me wonder if their are ways to fool the hardware to perform strange effects.
>
>Anyways, let's here what other strange bugs eyou've all had!!
>
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