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From: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: More on A3000
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:21:50 GMT
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Some more final questions, and updates about the A3000.  (Sorry to
bother, but I have to find this stuff out.).

I went back to the store where I could use the A3000, they were nice
enough to let me crash their machine 2 times ;).  Unfortunately there
system doesn't seem to be that stable and while there are very nice
people their knowledge of the Amiga is minimal.  They are running WB
2.0b2, 2Meg Chip and 4 meg Fast (I think), 1950 monitor, and it seems
a little buggy for the following reasons:

1)  I tried to do what the rest of you suggested and create a virtual
screen, and to use a higher resolution.  I went into the preferences
folder and used two apps to do this.  Screen Size and Overscan. (This
is from memory so the exact names might be off a little).  In any case
I could not get out of 640x200 resolution, nor create a virtual
screen.  I tried using the programs (typing in the numbers) and then
clicked both "save" and "use", I tried to reboot, nothing happened it
just stayed there in 640x200.  I tried asking the dealer he said "it's
a beta version of the OS and doesn't seem to be working."  Help?

2)  I noticed another problem when moving the mouse pointer.  Every other
scan line would "drop out" whenever I moved the pointer.  This produced
a very jittery effect.  I also noticed this happened when I scrolled
windows.  Every other line in an icon would disappear and the
reappear. (Same for the cursor when scrolling vertically).  I again
questioned the dealer and he said that it was due to the de-interlacer
of the A3000.  I can hardly believe this.  Again they were really nice
people but their expertise is well....lacking.  Has anyone else been
plagued by this?

Again I thank you for your time.  (Hopefully this will be the last
post).

Todd

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