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From: wille@hpccc.HP.COM (Ross Wille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacBugs and SuperMac Video cards
Message-ID: <1740002@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 89 22:08:56 GMT
References: <41062f1d.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Organization: HP Corporate Computing Center
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/ hpccc:comp.sys.mac.programmer / emb90619@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu / 12:19 am  Jan 29, 1989 /
> 
> Yup, you've found a bug in the software.  I found this bug a while ago, and
> reported it both to SuperMac and to APDA.  SuperMac claims the card is not to
> blame, and that the bug is with MacsBug.  Apple says MacsBug is fine, and that
> SuperMac must be doing something wrong.  In any case, the thing doesn't work if
> a SuperMac card is installed.  It doesn't matter if the card is the main device
> either.  Any ideas anyone?
> ----------
> 
I have a SuperMac video card and a color monitor.  Macsbug works fine
when the Mac is set to 2-color (B&W) mode.  If I know that I'm going
to use Macsbug, I switch into 2-color mode (Switch-A-Roo FKey works great).

Hope this helps.

Ross Wille - Hewlett Packard
wille@hplabs (wille@hpccc)