Re: Hopefully last dumb newbie question.

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Willie Yeo <w.yeo@qut.edu.au> wrote:

> Mitchell Spector wrote:
> 
> >     Then this is definitely yet another glitch with this particular
> > ROM 3 motherboard. The programmer CDA's and Alternate Display Mode
> > are always flagged to 'on'. Perhaps I need to have someone write a
> > an INIT that forces Alternate Display Mode to be disabled (just as
> > was done for forcing the programmer CDA's out of my menu).
> 
>     Well ... in the later ROM 3s, the programmer CDA's default to 'on'
> has been fixed. I know that for sure coz' I have one of those ROM 3s
> without the programmer CDA enabled by default.

It is not a fault of early ROM 3 machines, just of some individual
machines (Mitchell's is the only one I've heard about).

I have a reasonably early ROM 3 (bought second-hand within a year of
their release, if I remember right), and it does not suffer from this
problem.

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