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From: drs-ano@duvan.nada.kth.se (Arne Nordmark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to make Dropcloth pix w/PIXmate
Message-ID: <263@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 5 Jan 88 13:33:25 GMT
References: <2029@gryphon.CTS.COM>
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Reply-To: elin.lne.kth.se!NORDMARK@enea.UUCP
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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Keywords: DropCloth
Summary: DropCloth does not work on PAL machines (it seems)

In article <2029@gryphon.CTS.COM> hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>     Yes, I downloaded DropCloth and put it through it's paces.  I don't
>personally plan to use the program, but it _is_ cute and gives those
>arrogant Mac users something to think about.  I wish it would work
>automatically with interlaced Workbench -- currently it displays garbage on
>the bottom half of the screen if you try to dropcloth a 640x200 image on a
>640x400 Workbench.  Oh well, can't have everything, especially for free.

A PAL Amiga (640x256 WB) suffers from the same problem when using Dropcloth:
Everything below the 200th line is pure garbage.

Well I could use LessRows but... :-)

There is a curious bug (feature?) which shows up about every 25th time I
boot up my PAL A2K: It configures for NTSC instead of PAL!
(Ever seen that CATS?) My ex-A1K suffered from the same thing.

So basically I just have to reboot around 25 times to get DropCloth working.
Oh, I must not forget to turn on the write protect switch :-)

  - Gunnar Nordmark -      elin.lne.kth.se!NORDMARK@enea.UUCP