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- From: jayscott@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jason Scott Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: That little half-line of flicker on my A3000
- Message-ID: <1gl14hINN37v@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 16:29:05 GMT
- References: <Bz9HpJ.CLB@unix.portal.com> <Bz9MFD.3uG@news.iastate.edu> <Bz9zrt.K6M@unix.portal.com>
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- In article <Bz9zrt.K6M@unix.portal.com> danb@shell.portal.com (Dan E Babcock) writes:
- >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
- >
-
- Well, I obtained QMouse from Fish 731 last night, and it doesn't like to work with
- my WB3.0 setup. Haven't tried it under 2.0 yet, but I don't really use 2.0
- anymore.
-
- Any other suggestions, anyone?
-
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- Jason Anderson
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