Re: IIgs "Mouse-erasing" ---- is it a virus??

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: In article <4mm54k$2o8@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
: Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
: > In article <4mln3b$4c8@lynx.unm.edu>,
: > stephen e buggie <buggie@pegasus.unm.edu> wrote:
: > >On some of my software, I notice that scrolling the mouse around the 
: > >screen erases the portion of screen image....
: > >Is this a virus or what?   Teh software continues to work.
: > 
: >    If this is on a Rom 3, the cause is buggy software. Apparently, the
: > way things get drawn on the 3 vs the 01 changed, mostly affecting
: > mouse drawing. [BeatBox is one program that suffers from this]

: I don't recall this problem.  The only one I know of regarding the
: mouse on the ROM 3 is that the cursor is invisible while moving the
: mouse up the screen if you have a ZIP GS, and this is fixed by the
: ZipFix INIT.
[snip]

If you have the shotdown reminder extension installed, you can see this problem
in action. It works properly on a ROM 01 but on a ROM 3, after the screen goes
black right before you get the "you can turn off your IIgs safely" box, you
can move the mouse around and wherever you move it, it changes the screen back
to the desktop color.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool