CompuServe Messages

Don, HOW IN THE WORLD did you come up with that ?! I was really bummed at the thought that my new 4MB/AutoBoot Xetec might be at fault so I tried to think of what ELSE had changed – well natch to test with it off the bus I had had to boot from floppy WB, so I tried this again but WITH the Xetec ram and scsi on the bus – just no autoboot, NO PROBLEMS… but I noticed right away the different prefs colors (default) and remembered that I had been fiddling with interlace, colors, monitor width/height, horiz centering AND the Prefs Centering gadget… Went back to BOOT: system-config and reset prefs to default and the whole mysterious mess DISAPPEARED !? Now I'm a happy camper but am certainly NAGGED by not understanding WHAT the heck is happening here ? I can see how jiggering the screen-centering might interact with my monitor's capabilities to get the bars (? can I ?) but the "sprite splattering" seems like it could only be derived from problems on the Amiga End ? Or is it not the monitor ? Does the centering setting somehow trash things in Overscan ? 1.3 ? I'd be interested in what led you to your correct guess. PS – Upside of all this sweat and bother (on my end) is that I did crack open my old (1986) Amiga Hardware manual and start re-examining Agnus, Paula and Denise… fascinating stuff, definitely neat for 1986 but I expected more changes than their (and my) widening girth over the past 4 years… THANKS – da – via Whap!