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In article <1dn33uo.c8imvy1kufuk8N@berling.demon.co.uk>,
postmaster@berling.demon.co.uk (Bizmallah) wrote:

>Subject: Re: disappearing screen fonts
>From: postmaster@berling.demon.co.uk (Bizmallah)
>Organization: Clockwork Design
>Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:14:02 +0000
>Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac
>
>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!

This is interesting - could be. I have a lot of 68k applications on 8.5.
I suppose this would include claris emailer 2.00 and Newshopper.

Can't afford to replace them all. 

Thanks