Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!xanth!ames!pacbell!sactoh0!lindam
From: lindam@sactoh0 (Linda C. Marquess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Munched Sprites
Keywords: sprites, preferences 1.3
Message-ID: <1704@sactoh0>
Date: 10 Aug 89 08:19:43 GMT
Organization: SAC-UNIX (Public Access), Sacramento, Ca.
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After finding scrambled sprites on three new games (shareware
Peter's Quest, Steinschlag and Compute!'s Arcade Volleyball, I
nearly panicked.  My A1000 is getting up there in years and I was
sure that my machine was going.  A friend told me that his 2000 did
same on those games.  Several hours of experimentation paid off.
The problem
was with my system-configuration saved with preferences 1.3 (the
same problem
happens with Potter's Preferences)!  I can use the 1.3 prefs if I
run it
before the game and click DEFAULT SETTINGS (then switch to 80
columns).
If I save the default settings and reboot, I still have scrambled
sprites.
I *HAVE* to run preferences before the game.  I suppose this could
be the
fault of "creative" programming techniques, but it seems that there
is a 
little critter in 1.3.




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