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- From: sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WB 3.0 and NickPrefs
- References: <1992Nov9.033310.20294@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- Message-ID: <sbiddle.06dr@aviate.welly.gen.nz>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 15:50:29 +1300
- Organization: Steves Amiga - Wellington, New Zealand.
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- In article <1992Nov9.033310.20294@cbnews.cb.att.com>,
- itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
- >Has anyone noticed a problem with running NickPrefs and WB 3.0? I'm running
- >3.0 on an A4000. I was just playing with setting different screen modes in
- >prefrences and discovered that everytime Intuition tried to change the screen
- >mode the machine would guru! It would also guru when trying to reset the screen
- >after changing the overscan prefs. I started removing stuff from the startup
- >sequence and narrowed down the problem to NickPrefs. When not running NickPrefs
- >all works fine. Does anyone know about this? Has this been fixed in a newer
- >version? Unfortunately I can't figure out what version I'm running...
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- NickPrefs seems to do lots of illegal things, and under 2.0, I've had it
- crash many times..Just try the animated pointer under excellence! :-(
- >
- >WB 3.0 lets you use IFF backdrops and edit the busy pointer (although not
- >animate them :-( ) so I guess the only thing I need it for is to keep
- >the floppy drive from clinking. Does anyone want to recomend a 3.0 friendly
- >drive anti-clicker?
-
- Try killclick2, it's only about 1200 bytes long..Should be on most FTP sites..
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