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Re: disappearing screen fonts

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From: Bizmallah
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:00
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Trevor Sommers <trevor@stirrins.notdemon.co.uk> wrote:

> Occasionally a large section of the fonts on my G3 will suddenly grey out
> and become unreadable.This happens within a programme or the display fonts
> in say the apple menu. Nothing else is affected and there is no crash I
> just have to restart as i cannot read the text on the screen.
> 
> Any others had this?


Yes, once... I beleive its because you are running a 68k application on
OS 8.5 (check the about this computer, in the apple menu for the OS
version), which ships with the G3s.

OS8.5 stripped away a lot of the old 68k code which some applications
use, hence the drop-out.

My advice is update to PowerPC versions, and if you already have, sorry
for wasting your time!
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Date: 1999/02/11
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