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- From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
- Subject: Re: Revenge of the Bobs: Warning
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.230011.7573@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:00:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.093105.5653@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
- >
- >Gack! I was running the Ninja Force "Revenge of the Bobs"
- >demo disk, and when I reset my GS, it had changed my control
- >panel settings.
- >
- >Okay, well changing control panel settings isn't a horrible crime,
- >but this program sets the text and background to black! It also
- >sets the boot slot to 5, so I couldn't even load System 6 from
- >my hard drive (And not being able to actually "see" the control
- >panel, I couldn't reset the colors).
-
- Yeah, I had this problem. It depends when you reset out. If
- you reset out when it's loading (I believe) it sets the text color
- and BG color to black... and the startup slot to 5.
-
- luckily, I remembered the key sequence... ctrl-OA-esc, down
- arrow, return, down arrow, return, up arrow, left arrow to reset
- standards... :)
-
- >Anyway, I managed to dig up and find an old System disk with the
- >control panel NDA on it, so I was able to fix it. But I wonder
- >what else this demo did to my computer?!
-
- I think I reset out once and the computer was in pal mode.
- Thus the screen was crunched and elongated. My solution was to type
- c02b:18 in the monitor.
-
- >(__) Grover Thomas InterNet: grover@emunix.emich.edu (__)
-
- Don't worry, as far as I know it's not a virus. It's just one
- of those things...
-
-
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