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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Great Demo from Rex...
Message-ID: <1417@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 87 01:12:16 GMT
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In article <490@cacilj.UUCP> paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close) writes:
>In article <906@atari.UUCP> neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) writes:
>>I have seen all three demos.  One and two seem to be early versions, each
>>with one song.  After you've seen number three, you don't need these.
>
>Well, I hadn't seen this one before, so I downloaded it from a local BBS.
>(It was called ROBB.ARC).  When I ran the program, however, I got what
>looked like about 8 screens flashing back and forth madly.  The music
>worked just fine.  The ARC tested out just fine, and I even got it from a
>spearate source, but the strange behaviour remains.  The effect reminded
>me of a TV when you turn the horizontal hold knob way too far :-).

Good analogy, because to fix the display all you have to do is twist your
vertical hold knob (clockwise, I think, but experiment with it).  The demo
puts graphics above the normal top of the screen, so the ST gets a bit
confused about how big the screen is.  It IS possible to adjust your monitor
so that you can get a good display both inside and outside the demo (but
you have to get the vertical hold just right...)

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