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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Broken Sprite?
Summary: When the screen is too far over, it cuts off sprite DMA
Message-ID: <200@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 15 May 89 07:43:12 GMT
References: <2254@tahoe.unr.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <2254@tahoe.unr.edu> roccom@tahoe.unr.edu (RoCCo mArtIn) writes:
>	I've noticed that using certain hacks such as "oing" and "friends"
>   creates a character that is smeared vertically across the screen.

Go into Preferences and re-center your display.  If the screen is shifted
over too far to the left, it eats into the time allocated to sprites 6
and 7.  It causes the symptoms you describe - a vertical band of random
colors, 16 dots wide and going the full length of the screen.

It's unfortunate that Preferences does not do something when this extreme
setting is selected.  It really should put up a requester saying:

	Warning: Sprites 6 and 7 have been disabled
	   [ OK ]                     [ CANCEL ]

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