jms@doctor.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (09/29/89)
I had complained to Electronic Arts that Dpaint3 would not allow me to save pictures in 320x200 format while running a morerow'ed Workbench. I have "morerows -rows 17 -columns 32" and Dpaint3 kept wanting to save the image as 320x217. They took my address at the time, then I got a letter saying: Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts regarding the operation of Deleuxe Paint III on your Amiga. We are pleased to inform you that a new version of Deluxe Paint III is now available. This version corrects the animation problem on one megabyte Amigas with Super Agnus and includes improved memory management capabilities. To receive the new version, please send all three original Deluxe Paint III disks (program disk, art disk, and animation disk) along with a brief description of the problem(s) you have encountered to Electronic Arts Customer Warrranty P.O. Box 7578 San Mateo, CA 94403-7578 Electronic Arts Customer Service, (415)572-2787 The replacement disks arrived yesterday. Selecting "About.." from the menu says that it is version 3.21 of the program. It looks like the morerows problem was a result of Dpaint3 trying to automatically adapt to PAL systems (640x256 or 640x512 Workbench). The fix is a new pair of gadgets on Deluxe Paint III's opening screen. Now we have 16 choices for screen resolution: NTSC Overscan PAL Overscan Lo-Res 320x200 352x240 320x256 352x290 Med-Res 640x200 702x240 640x256 702x290 Interlace 320x400 352x480 320x512 352x580 Hi-Res 640x400 702x480 640x512 702x580 As before, the page size can be the same or larger than the screen size. (Still can't select a page size smaller than 320x200.) I was able to work on a 1024x1024x16-color page while VT100 was running and had 77K of chip RAM left over. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"