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PAR Block Size for 1.27

    23-Sep-94 00:30:02
Fm: Jeff Richardson 72727,1626
To: Randy Jackson 73162,3010
Randy, I've just been experiencing *EXACTLY* the same problem with my PAR, that is animations starting out playback properly and then flaking out part way through. Especially where there are big color changes….. The problem seems to be related to block setting being too high. The strange thing is that when I was using the original PAR software (1.01?), my block setting with the 2217 drive was set reliably to 250. Not a single problem!!! As soon as I installed the 1.25 & 1.27 software, the block setting had to be reduced to 220. Has anyone else experienced a difference in required block setting between the original PAR software and the newer versions? Also, one other problem I've been having is that when attempting to EXPORT an animation file from the PAR to individual .TGA files on a DOS drive, I keep getting frame 0 being repeated throughout the entire numerical sequence of the TARGA files (i.e. imag0050.tga is exactly the same as imag0000.tga). However, if I copy the files individually by name from the DOS prompt, they work fine. Later, -Jeff