Re: Mouse pointer garbled

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From: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:00

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In demon.ip.support.amiga Ian Deaville <ian@deaville.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Shortly after downloading & installing the BoingBag OS3.5 update set from Amiga,
> my mouse pointer has become a series of garbled vertical lines.  It still
> operates properly, the hot spot is in the right place, ans the Prefs pointer
> editor shows it having the right shape, but on all screens it looks duff.  The
> reference to the BoingBag may be a coincidence, but I'm keeping my options open.

Uhm, I vaguely remember having some problems like that with one of
the older versions of CGFx and the original Cybervision.

I haven't got around to installing BB#1 yet...

> Have I blown the blitter chip?  Do I have a software fault?  Any ideas, please?

Possible though unlikely, have you got any old games you can try :)

> System includes A1200T, Blizzard 1260, 32Mb Fast Ram, AteoBus system.  

GFx card ?

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