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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: 512K and wimpy GIME chips
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 00:14:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 00:14:38 1987
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Summary: Noisy GIME?

In article <172@wlbreng1.UUCP> pete@wlbreng1.UUCP (0000-Pete Lyall) writes:
>In article <1404@ihwpt.UUCP> knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) writes:
>>I bought a blank PBJ upgrade daughter board for my Coco III

...

>On another tack, has anyone else noted the 'snowflake effect' under
>level II? It seems to be that re-mapping of memory by the gime cause
>little white spots to appear on the monitors (all - I have tried 3
>RGB's and 2 monochromes). It is very prominent under applications that
>use a lot of system calls (like I$getstt in a terminal program)..


     I noticed something in the way of noise on my cheap composite monitor,
but noting extensive.

>BTW - Level II was cleared through Q/A as of Tuesday of last week..

     Does that mean it's almost in the stores?  I heard "sometime in March
for Canada", but you guys in the south usually get stuff a bit earlier than
us.  Any word on the new version of Deskmate?




     In case anyone's wondering (and to flesh out this message so the
mailer doesn't dump it), I called J&M and they have not yet corrected the
parallel port addressing problem on their top line controller.  I then
called CRC (Disto Super Controller) and they claim full CoCo3 compatibility.
I bought the Disto--with my fingers crossed.
:-)

Cheers! -- Jim O.