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From: nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Screenpeace drawing in BLACK !?!
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Date: 1 Mar 91 20:13:41 GMT
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I've been using screenpeace on my 386 system at home for several months now.
A couple weeks ago, I noticed that screenpeace seemed to have stopped
working, it seemed to be just changing the screen to black but not drawing
any boxes/shapes in random colors like it used to.  Upon further
examination, it became clear that it IS drawing boxes of random size and
shape, but that MOST of the boxes/shapes are being drawn in BLACK!  
Occasionally I will see a box being drawn in pink or yellow, but lots of
black boxes get drawn on top, and eventually the screen becomes all black.
I suppose I must have changed something, but I have no idea what!

Any ideas you can give me will be appreciated.

This only happens with the spx programs that draw random boxes/shapes, and
the one that draws kaledioscope-like line drawings.  Other spx's that draw
mazes, or bounce a ball, or drop snowflakes, or fly a dragon kite, all work
without any apparent problem.  I could just disable the offending ones, but
I suspect this is a tip-off that something's gone wrong, and I'd like to
correct the problem instead of merely masking it.

Thanks in advance for your replies/followups.

Oh, this is running on a 386DX with QEMM 5.11, in enhanced mode, using a
ET4000 clone board in 1024x768x256 mode.

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