Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Hardware Idiots Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 91 14:13:36 GMT References: <1991Jun01.043127.24852@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: Elvis Presley Museum Of Obsolete Computing Hardware Lines: 18 In article <1991Jun01.043127.24852@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> rudolpe@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Eric Hans Rudolph) writes: [...] >Here's a MAJOR question that makes me think of C64... When I trash my >memory, sometimes my characters on the screen get HUGE, like some giant scaled >bitmap. Why???? I see no references in documentation that descibe THAT effect at all! >Are there hardware side effects that no ones telling me about? It's racial memory. When you treat the Amiga like a C-64 by poking all over its memory, it harkens back to it's hindbrain and puts up a C-64 display. >thanks again. Sure, no problem! :-) -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |