> On Jun 11, 11:44am in "Re: The Homing Prom :)", Nige warbled:
> ] Never knew that. Mind you, I never use tape. Has anybody else ever noticed
> ] that sometimes when you change into MODE 3, I think, you still get 256
> ] pixels across, as if xrg were 256, even tho you've not touched xrg since you
> ] switched on? That's another one, btw Simon.
> 
> FATPIX=0?

Could be the problem, tho I never touched fatpix either.

> 
> My favourite is the one with changing csize and scrolling. Change the
> vertical size of your characters in the middle of a screen a lot, and see
> what happens (this used to happen in kedisk, but I stopped the csizes and now
> it don't...)

Oh yeah - in one of the old ROMs, if you tried to scroll the screen with any
character height other than 8, there was a very good chance it would crash
horribly.

> 
> I can't remember the exact details, but as far as I remember it just forgets
> about scrolling the screen and _wraps round_ the 32k di-page. Such fun...

Looks like it's been partially fixed for 3.0, then, but not completely.

Nige


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