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From: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Control Panel Puzzle under Sys 5.0x
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Date: 11 Mar 90 06:29:06 GMT
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In article <1437@mountn.dec.com> shatara@memit.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara) writes:
>I noticed something strange on my machine ever since I installed system 
>5.0 and 5.0.2.  Everyso often the setting on the Keyboard repeat speed in 
>the control panel is set to max and the repeat delay is set to min.  I 
>will go in and reset these items and they'll be ok for a while but then 
>get reset.  I havn't figured out the cause as of yet.  I don't suspect the 
>battery as these are the onbly two parameters affected.  Has anyone else 
>seen thise problem?

Yes, I've seen this problem too - in my case, Test Drive II was the culprit - 
for some stupid reason, it has to change these values in battery ROM, and 
doesn't ever reset them.  It also turns keyboard buffering off.

Prince of Persia (a really slick //e game), when run on a gs, also sets 
speed to slow and text color to white.  Since the program never uses the 
text screen, and since there are status registers that can modify each
of these things w/o changing battery RAM, I have no idea why it does that.

Henry

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Henry Throop
Internet: throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu