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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: jrcomm 1.0 entry screen :-)
Keywords: JR-Comm problems A3000
Message-ID: <1533@faatcrl.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 90 13:36:08 GMT
References: <1509@faatcrl.UUCP> <26053@usc.edu> <1518@faatcrl.UUCP> <3126@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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menelli@tellabs.com (Ron Menelli) writes:

>Since all of this discussion about JR-Comm has been going on, I thought I
>would see if anyone could solve my (somewhat different) problem.
>I have a stock A3000 25 MHz with the release ROMs. When I attempt to run
>JR-Comm, the title screen comes up, and then the program promptly bombs.
>I then get a "Not Enough Memory" guru-like error, and that's all, folks.
>This doesn't seem (at least, I don't think so...) to be the same semaphore
>error others are having (I even wrote a little program to check location 0
>in a moment of desperation, and it contains a big, fat, longword 0 as
>expected.) Anyway, the only thing even remotely stange about my system is that
>I am running Cross-DOS v4.0. Anyone have any suggestions?

Under 2.0 it has been found that a non-zero value in location 0 allows JR-Comm
to run.  I'm probably gonna pull the damned title screen because of this...

...I still can't get over the fact that one stupid lores screen could cause
so much grief, oh well...

  -jack-