DISCUSSION A: On early Amiga
systems, a utility known as FastFonts was
invoked during the Startup-Sequence to patch
the system text rendering functions to make
them faster. FastFonts was very popular, and
was also included in official
Commodore/Amiga Workbench 1.x
disks.
Unfortunately FastFonts was not designed
with "faster than real" Amiga systems in
mind, and lacked proper blitter wait
mechanisms. As a result of this, on systems
which are faster than the original Amiga
1000, 500 and 2000 hardware, the use of
FastFonts can result in "garbled" text.
Usually this manifests itself as all
characters appearing to be offset by one
position in the ASCII table. For example,
"Workbench" becomes "Vnqjadmbg", "RAM DISK"
becomes "Q@L_CHRJ", etc.
This can be solved in one of three ways:
- Remove the "FF" (FastFonts) command
from the Startup-Sequence
- Edit the title in Amiga Forever
(right-click and select Edit) and switch
the CPU speed from Fastest to Original
- Edit the title in Amiga Forever and
set the "Immediate blits" advanced
compatibility option
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