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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!danb
- From: danb@shell.portal.com (Dan E Babcock)
- Subject: Re: That little half-line of flicker on my A3000
- Message-ID: <Bz9zrt.K6M@unix.portal.com>
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- References: <1giefkINNln3@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <Bz9HpJ.CLB@unix.portal.com> <Bz9MFD.3uG@news.iastate.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:52:40 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <Bz9MFD.3uG@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >In article <Bz9HpJ.CLB@unix.portal.com> danb@shell.portal.com (Dan E Babcock) writes:
- >>In article <1giefkINNln3@bigboote.WPI.EDU> jayscott@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jason Scott Anderson) writes:
- >>>
- >>> Okay, I've been pretty patient with my computer for some time now with
- >>>regard to that half a line that flickers on my Amiga 3000 screen...but I'd
- >>>really like to find out if there's anything that I can do about it. I
- >>>think I remember hearing that there was a program or something which could
- >>>take care of it, but I'm really not sure. Is this just my monitor, or is
- >>>it just a "side effect" of the Amber?
- >>
- >>It's an Amber bug. QMouse (fish 731) will blank the top line of the display
- >>to eliminate the effect.
- >
- > Two people mentioned that QMouse will blank the top line to eliminate the
- >flicker. But on my machine, under AmigaOS 2.1, that feature of QMouse
- >blanks the WHOLE DISPLAY and not just the top line. Is there a new version
- >with this little bug fixed?
-
- Ahem, that's why I mentioned *Fish 731* above. The original version was not
- compatible with overscan.
-
- Dan
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