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.
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