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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A590 & Starflight
Summary: Possible null pointer problem.
Keywords: dereferencing a null pointer, A590 disk handler
Message-ID: <915@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 10:18:33 GMT
References: <8266@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <8266@nigel.udel.EDU> 2200ai@gmuvax2.gmu.edu writes:
>I recently bought Starflight from Electronic Arts.  I own a 500 and an A590
>hard drive.  After playing Starflight for a while the system will crash,
>lock up, or GURU.  Upon calling EA they told me that it was the A590 causing
>the problem and that the only work around was to remove it from the system.

You could try asking this question of EA: "Does the reason why Starflight
won't work on an A500 with with an A590 have anything to do with nonzero
values in memory location zero?"  Keep after them until you get connected
to someone who understands the ramifications of the question, and can
provide a definite yes or no answer.

Then ask your dealer or Commodore Customer Support if the "odd value in zero"
problem has been fixed for the A590.  I think someone from CATS said that
that was the cause.

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