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- From: ougjp@alinga.newcastle.edu.au (Josh Pryor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Games and the 1438S...HELP!
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 11:19:36 GMT
- Organization: The University of Newcastle
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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?
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- Try disabling any screenmode promotion utilities you may have running,
- in particluar the VGA monitor in devs: or the VGA onyl option in
- IControl in Prefs. You may find some of the games don't like being
- promoted.
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- Cheers
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