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- From: Adrian Boone <a.boone@kainos.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Games and the 1438S...HELP!
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 12:09:09 GMT
- Organization: Kainos Software Ltd.
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- David Tansley <d.tansley@stud.man.ac.uk> wrote:
- >I have an Amiga Tech 1438S monitor, and apart from a few niggles
- >it has done good work so far...One of the niggles is that, while
- >on Workbench in DBLPAL mode (High Res No Flicker), if I try to
- >run a game which needs a PAL screen, sometimes the machine locks
- >up, produces garbage on the screen, and makes the most
- >distressing sounds in christendom!! Not all games do this, and
- >the ones that do can (almost) easily be ran from early startup,
- >or by changing the WBench screenmode.
- >Does anyone else have this problem? Is it exclusive to the much
- >maligned 1438S or do other multisyncs do it? Can I solve it?
-
- Hi, I have the Microvitec version of this monitor (pre AT) and the same thing
- happens with some games. However, I don't think the monitor has anything to do
- with it. There are two possible reasons that I know of:- (1) the game isn't
- AGA compatible so you need to run it with Enhanced/Original from the
- early-startup display menu (or you could try some of the degrader programs
- around), and (2) the game uses its own Setpatch command (check out the games
- startup-sequence) which seems to conflict with the one (in C:) used in the
- workbench startup-sequence - I use Startup-Menu (on aminet util/boot) to set up
- a custom startup-sequence for running games like this (e.g. All New World of
- Lemmings) though again this requires a reboot. If anybody has any other
- suggestions, I'd be interested to hear them.
- Adrian
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