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From: wdao@castor.usc.edu (Walter Dao)
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Subject: Newsflash 10
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Date: 9 Jul 90 08:34:47 GMT
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somebody said that they had problem with some demos from that disk.
Well, I downloaded it (from xanth). puttrax'ed it and booted it .
Something from the Startup-sequence gurued the computer. 
Fair enough, I booted from a system disk and accessed the files one by one 
without all the fancy menu (powermenu ?) from the newsflash disk.
Coma : it decompressed (lines of color) and then froze there. I guess it needs
a pal machine 
Cebit : it decompressed and ran rather well. even on a ntsc machine. 
        I have heard that on a pal machine, it looks better and that some part
        (which have to be in chip ram) are not skipped . 

by the way, I have a 500 with 1meg but without the fat agnus (so no pal 
emulation capable) . 

yes, I have had some problem with Puttrax. (file not found + guru)
something that seemed to help was to CD to the dir with the file AND to 
specify the full path where the file is . I havent tried to put the file in a
subdir and see the frequency of gurus occuring and I am not about to try to 
check it out . 

						Walter