lindam@sactoh0 (Linda C. Marquess) (08/10/89)
After finding scrambled sprites on three new games (shareware Peter's Quest, Steinschlag and Compute!'s Arcade Volleyball, I nearly panicked. My A1000 is getting up there in years and I was sure that my machine was going. A friend told me that his 2000 did same on those games. Several hours of experimentation paid off. The problem was with my system-configuration saved with preferences 1.3 (the same problem happens with Potter's Preferences)! I can use the 1.3 prefs if I run it before the game and click DEFAULT SETTINGS (then switch to 80 columns). If I save the default settings and reboot, I still have scrambled sprites. I *HAVE* to run preferences before the game. I suppose this could be the fault of "creative" programming techniques, but it seems that there is a little critter in 1.3. -- ############################################################# # PRIVATE # SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. # # PARKING # UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0 # #############################################################
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (08/11/89)
In <1704@sactoh0>, lindam@sactoh0 (Linda C. Marquess) writes: >After finding scrambled sprites on three new games (shareware >Peter's Quest, Steinschlag and Compute!'s Arcade Volleyball, I >nearly panicked. My A1000 is getting up there in years and I was >sure that my machine was going. A friend told me that his 2000 did >same on those games. Several hours of experimentation paid off. >The problem was with my system-configuration saved with preferences >1.3 (the same problem happens with Potter's Preferences)! > I can use the 1.3 prefs if I run it before the game and click >DEFAULT SETTINGS (then switch to 80 columns). >If I save the default settings and reboot, I still have scrambled sprites. >I *HAVE* to run preferences before the game. I suppose this could be the >fault of "creative" programming techniques, but it seems that there is a >little critter in 1.3. Two things... 1. Are you using a hard drive? If so, are you copying the system-configuration file to the DEVS directory on the boot disk? If not, it is only being changed in the assigned DEVS: directory. 2. Try moving the screne position a little to the left. This is a well known phenomenon that I first saw on 'MindWalker' sometime in '86. -larry -- "So what the hell are we going to do with a Sun?" - Darlene Phillips - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
lindam@sactoh0 (Linda C. Marquess) (08/11/89)
My munched sprites were due to the screen being set, ever so slightly to the left. I tried changing ALL other values to their defaults, one at a time, but the screen looked fine sooo... The moral is, don't ignore the seemingly insignificant. -- ############################################################# # PRIVATE # SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. # # PARKING # UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0 # #############################################################