Cursor readout/aperture vanished

Bill J Gray Sep 2, 2002

Pierre, I just tried turning the aperture on/off. When you turn it
off, the aperture size drops to zero (not a good design on my part;
I intentionally set it so that a size of zero means "off"). Anyway,
this means that, when you turn it back on again, you have to re-enter
the size. I'll fix this.

Jari, there are two ways to get the cursor readout to stop.

The first (and least likely) is to run the DOS version of Guide and hit
the '<' key. This toggles the cursor readout. (The DOS version, of
course, dates back to the Stone Age of computing, when updating
the cursor each time it moves could be a drain on resources.)

The second (more likely) way is to edit STARTUP.MAR and look
for the line

53 curs rdt 1

If it says '0' instead of '1', it would explain the problem. It most
likely got reset when playing with STARTUP.MAR.

-- Bill