Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!lpami
From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Broken Sprite?
Message-ID: <2418@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 03:19:45 GMT
Sender: lpami@van-bc.UUCP
Lines: 19

In <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.  I'm
> assuming that these programs are using sprites of some kind.  Could
> someone please let me know what the problem could be???

Run Preferences and move your screen to the right, and a little below center.
With it too far left, you eat cycles that are needed by one of the sprites.
It's a very old problem, and first showed up for me when running MindWalker.

-larry

--
  - Don't tell me what kind of a day to have! -
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
|   //   Larry Phillips                                                |
| \X/    lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca or uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips  |
|        COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322                                        |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+