Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: glitching sprites while doing ScrollVPort
Summary: koster@cory was correct
Message-ID: <2724@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 2 Oct 88 00:47:41 GMT
References: <2716@sugar.uu.net> <6084@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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[I curse the day I first started using an overscan Workbench]

In article <6084@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Anonymous user) writes:
> The symptoms you describe (tall vertical lines, garbage sprites that come
> in and out) are exactly the ones I found when someone had his preferences
> display position way to the left, and was running a program that used
> sprite 5. That was REALLY fun to debug! I just assumed it was my fault, and
> just couldn't find the bug.

Bingo.  I shifted the screen to the right with Preferences and the problem
went away.  Whew, thanks to sub-24-hour news turnaround, I didn't burn too
much time on this honker.
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