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From: lawrence@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM (Lawrence Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: My experiences with PC-Ditto II
Message-ID: <2823@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 90 19:55:51 GMT
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In article <1990Apr9.125813.635@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum)
writes:


>This weekend I happened to notice a new phenomenon:  During the first 15
>minutes of use I can sometimes hang PC-DITTO.  I suspect that this has to
>do with the connector/cpu heating up and expanding.

I have had similar experiences that seems to go away or diminish after the
system's been on for 15 to 30 minutes.  By any chance, do you also experience
distortion and jitter on the video.  I have experienced severe problems that
I have not been able to track down, but they seem to go away after a period
of time.  However, these problems did not occur the first week I had PCD II.

It does seem like a heat problem, but I have trouble beleiving the 68000 
generates enough heat to put much stress on those connector pins.

You mentioned Procomm.  I have been running the last shareware version
(2.4.2, I think) and it will occasionally hang and force me to reboot.
However, I had the same problem with PC Ditto I.

Does anyone on the net have any thoughts?

BTW, I'm *still* looking for a screen saver that works with PCD II.

shalom, lawrence