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- From: paw@ausom.oz.au (Peter Watson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Revenge of the Bobs: Warning
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.040522.13608@ausom.oz.au>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 04:05:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.093105.5653@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Reply-To: paw%ausom.oz@sol.cc.deakin.oz.au
- Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne
- Lines: 29
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- 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).
- >
- >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?!
-
- It is always worth remembering that by powering on with the option key
- held down, you can reset all parameters simply by pressing the '1' key
- when the 'reset parameters.....' menu appears. Although I have not tried
- it, I would be suprised if the menu didn't override the black-on-black
- text, but in any case, just press the '1' key after a second.
-
- Cheers,
- Peter
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