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Article #41730Re: Mac II graphics weirdities
From: Alastair Milne
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 07:47
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 07:47
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>Question for the day: I've got a mac II here and have found that certain
>graphics intensive programs (macpaint for the SE, Talking Moose, Dungeon
>of Doom) Draw everything ok except the working area (thing being drawn)
>which appears
>seriously smallified in four scaled down ~1"x1" squares spread out along
>the menu bar.
>
>Frames and menus appar intact and functional but what you draw or what moves
>is only drawn in those 4 tiny boxes.
You should see the old FullPaint program, or BillBoard. Those squares are
the *only* places where they draw anything. I have my suspicions they
made some unauthorised assumptions about what memory was available for
graphics tinkering -- or even about where the screen actually goes in
memory.
How functional everything else was I wouldn't try to say: I had no
temptation to keep running them when there was a clear possibility they
were writing over memory they had no business to use.
However, I would be rather curious to find out exactly what problem causes
this symptom.
>Is there a utility to fix this?
Would much surprise me, but you can try.
Alastair Milne
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