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Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS

#4159
From: Neil Forsyth
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 07:57
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In article <1691@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
about the Ranbow on the Fuji on TOS 1.4
>Actually, Chris was right, I got silly one night, and decided to put
>in the easter egg.  I apologize to people that only have monochrome
>monitors, but it would have been, er, difficult to do anything as
>colorful in that 640x400 resolution. <grin>

TRIVIAL TOS 1.4 BUG!!!! (I thought that would get your attention Ken :-)
I don't have TOS 1.4 yet but I suspect that the rainbow won't work
properly with bigscreen.prg (a great program that give GEM a bigger screen).
You'll have to scroll the dialog to the middle of the screen first. Yes?

>
>-- 
>   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
>   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
>  / | \  #include <disclaimer>

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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
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Subject: Re: Curious about "Rainbow" TOS
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Date: 19 Sep 89 07:57:46 GMT
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