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Re: Mac II graphics weirdities

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From: David Casseres
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1989 01:46
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In article <2488@nmtsun.nmt.edu> vogelei@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd Vogelei) 
writes:
> 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.

This is what happens when you have your screen set for more than 1 
bit/pixel (in the Monitors CDEV) and the application tries to draw directly to the screen (i.e. not through QuickDraw).  The cure is to set your screen to 1 
bit/pixel.

David Casseres

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Subject: Re: Mac II graphics weirdities
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