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From: thyssen@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Thyssen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: spiders and crabs
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Date: 23 Aug 90 00:36:06 GMT
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scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) writes:
>The spiders and crabs programs recently posted to comp.sources.amiga cause
>a solid lockup followed by a guru when rebooting.  Here is the guru number
>and information I could gather on it:
>DH0(40MB):> guru 82011234                     
>    Alert Type: DEADEND                       
>  Generated by: Graphics Library              
> General Cause: Insufficient memory           
>Specific Cause: Emergency memory not available
>Has anybody else experienced this problem, or better yet, have a fix for it?
>The programs sound like good candidates for my hacks directory.
>Thanks.

   The Crabs program was written (by me) on a 1meg machine, I posted it
to the network so others can take a look, Please note, I live in australia
and as such am using PAL machines. I wonder if this could be the cause.
I'll take a relook at the code when I next get so time.

  Anthony Thyssen - (Dragon Computing!)         thyssen@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au
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