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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Desterm 2.00 Thick Pixels
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.225046.14301@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 22:50:46 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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warren@col.hp.com (Warren Tustin) writes:


>  Has anyone out there used the "thick pixel" emulation mode in Desterm 2.00?
>  I am trying Desterm out again on my 128, and when I go to thick pixels in
>  either 40 or 80 columns my screen 'flakes out'.  I get 3 vertical bars on
>  screen and what I type may or may not appear.  The left half of the top
>  info line is sorta present, with the fourth character from the right 
>  rapidly changing.  Also the cursor controls to adjust which set of
>  40 columns I am looking at don't seem to work.

>    - Others have experienced the same thing and it is a problem with 
>        Desterm.

I have had the same problem.  For more info: I run on a flat 128, expanded to
64K VDC RAM (although I had the same problem before I expanded), and a 1902A
RGB monitor.  I think I've got the old 128 ROMs (CAPS LOCK and Q gives a lower
case q).  However, I have seen the thick pixel mode work on another flat 128,
presumably with the original ROMs, although I am not sure on that point.

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu