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From: nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen)
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Subject: Re: More on A3000
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Date: 28 Apr 91 07:33:57 GMT
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In article <1991Apr25.152150.5637@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) writes:
>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?

To change to Virtual Screen, in the Preferences go into SCREENMODES 
program.  There you can change it to 640*400 by choosing 
NTSC:Hires-interlace, and then change the numbers of the Height and
Width to the numbers you want.  Then you can just type USE and the 
workbench will be using Virtual Screen.  
But make sure all the windows are closed before going into preferences.
From my experience with kickstart 2.02, it is quite stable when using
2.0 compatible programs.  

>
>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?


The pointer jitter problem is there if you move the pointer very fast.

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