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From: robotron@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk (Stephen K Mulrine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mouse Crazy! (also NoiseTracker 1.5)
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Date: 19 Mar 91 14:02:37 GMT
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In comp.sys.atari.st, smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) writes:
>I have had this little bug for a while and was wondering what caused it:
>Sometimes when you put a different disk in the drive, and press the
>escape key to see its contents, then after that the mouse movements become
>opposite.  That is when moving it up, the mouse pointer goes down and so
>forth.

I found this would happen every fifth time I swapped disks and pressed ESC.
Originally I thought it was a bug in TOS, but then I found my favourite disk
had an executable bootsector.  This virus seems to be otherwise harmless and
can be killed with any disk utility which allows you to toggle bootsector
executability.

I got NoiseTracker v1.5 recently.  I'm sure it's public domain, so should I
try to upload it to atari.archive?  There's nothing in any of the
documentation which suggests I shouldn't distribute it, but there's nothing
which says I should either.  It's a wonderful piece of software - I use it
on my STe to play Sound/NoiseTracker modules I've downloaded from a couple
of Amiga Games Machine anonymous FTP sites (ab20.larc.nasa.gov and
mars.ee.msstate.edu).  NB if you reply via email, use one of the addresses
in my .signature.
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