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From: aoe@hpfinote.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Deluxe (music) and DJ printing
Message-ID: <31110003@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 90 20:23:52 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.190229.20209@uncecs.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD
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B>Speaking of DMCS, had anyone had any luck running it off of a hard
B>disk?  I have the 'unprotected' version, and I tried making a directory
B>on my hard disk and copying the whole mess in, and while it seems to
B>mostly work, it regularly crashes my system [2000 w/ 2megs and GVP
B>HD].
B>  /Bernie\

Hmm ... I copied DMCS to Work:DeluxeMusic on the hard disk on my stock
A3000/25-100, moved the fonts stuff over under SYS:fonts, removed the
c, l, devs, directories (since they were 1.2), and assigned DMCS: to
Work:DeluxeMusic.  Then I was able to start DMCS from a double click on
its icon under 1.3 or 2.0 Workbench.  It works fine unless I try to back
out into the DMCS: parent directory in a file requestor or open directories
with many files in them (20 or so OK, 145 -> GURU; maybe stack 6000 is not
enough) with a file requestor.  Telling the file requestor to open the
Work: also leads to a GURU.  Other than that I'm quite happy with DMCS.
It sounds fine with the A10 speakers from Commodore, those 145 files
are PD DMCS files which are now spread out in 7 directories under DMCS: on
the hard disk.  I've been using DMCS to play them while I was doing other
things in the Workbench screen and haven't any difficulties.

There is a difference between Workbench 1.3 and 2.0 in the appearance of DMCS,
under 2.0 the window borders are light blue/grey, making the gadgets hard
to see.  Using different Workbench colors had no effect on DMCS border
colors.  The pulldown menus, score, keyboard, etc. window's contents are
displayed in the correct colors, regardless.

I don't know what version of DMCS I have, however the file dates are
early 1987.  I purchased DMCS from Software Support International about
3 weeks ago for $63.00.  DeluxePaintIII, which I got for $95.00 a month
earlier, also from SSI, has had only one problem so far.  When using the
fill tool it sometimes goes into an endless loop on trying fill certain
shapes (I haven't pursued the problem yet, but I have had it happen more
than once).  I'm running DeluxePaintIII from the hard drive as well.

Alexander Elkins