Path: ns-mx!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!udel!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!gt0t+ From: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: System 6 Icons question Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 92 01:11:24 GMT References: <1992Mar30.150840.38899@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <9204012028.AA05899@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca> <1992Apr3.070651.27192@cheshire.oxy.edu> Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: <1992Apr3.070651.27192@cheshire.oxy.edu> prophet@cheshire.oxy.edu (Dale LaFountain) writes: > Has anyone noticed any applications that forget to turn the graphics screen > on when they start? I.e., the game will come all the way up and I can > start playing (I can hear the sounds and music associated with starting the > game), but all I see on the screen is a block cursor on a text screen. The > one that I noticed this behavior with is SpaceFox. I seem to remember > hearing that there was some value I could poke using visit monitor that > fixes this. Any ideas why this happens and/or how to fix it? Yeah, set the auxtype of the file SpaceFox/Data/SpaceFox.Main to $DB02. That tells GS/OS that it's a desktop application. It's not, but that'll keep the system from going into text mode. > Thanks for any tips, and for reading my ramblings.... No problem. -Greg T. InterNet: gregt+@cmu.edu or: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNet : R746GT0T@CMCCVB AOL : GRThompson