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- From: kgapp@gagme.chi.il.us (Kevin Gapp)
- Subject: Re: Revenge of the Bobs: Warning
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.202117.15066@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Originator: kgapp@gagme
- Lines: 64
- Sender: usenet@serveme.chi.il.us
- Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
- References: <1992Aug17.093105.5653@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug17.230011.7573@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:21:17 GMT
-
- >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).
- >
-
- Steven Chiang relpies:
-
- > 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.
- >
- >
- > Don't worry, as far as I know it's not a virus. It's just one
- >of those things...
- >
- >>(__) Grover Thomas InterNet: grover@emunix.emich.edu
- >(__)
- >
- >
- >Steven Chiang Order - DreamGrafix: The ONLY
- >16/256/3200
- >stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu color paint program for the Apple
- >IIGS.
-
- Well, what about option (closed apple)-control-reset, that would bring back all
- the defaults, and then you could go back in the control panel and set all the
- preferences you want.
-
-
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- * Kevin Gapp Apple IIgs RuleZ *
- * Ask me about BoOgiE BoaRdZ SysTemZ bbs software for the Apple II. *
- * "Anything worth doing, is worth bitching about! *
- * kgapp@gagme.chi.il.us Lake Forest Academy *
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