Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!astro.psu.edu!antunes
From: antunes@astro.psu.edu (Sandy Antunes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Imagine memory usage.
Message-ID: <9010171449.AA15738@astrod>
Date: 17 Oct 90 14:49:42 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Lines: 21

Hi!  Well, I just got my copy of Imagine (yea yea yea!)
Now, I just have an A500 with old agnus and 1 Meg... when I try to
mount my hard drive and run Imagine, it never appears.  It seems
to need 840,000K or so minimum to just load.
  My question is, is this a bug or a feaature?  Does it really need all
that memory, or is it asking for more then it needs, or does it just
need two large contiguous blocks... I'd like to be able to run it when
I have my normal configurations going (memory checker, workbench loaded,
qmouse going...) but that leaves only 760,000K.  Is it possible to get
Imagine to work under these conditions?

  And a second somewhat related question.  Since I have the old 1/2meg
agnus, if I got, say, one of those A501-slot expansion boards with 1.5
or 2 or 3 meg on it, would it help with running Imagine and its animations
or would it be useless because I'd still be limited to 1/2meg Chip Ram?

                           thanks!                   sandy
------------
Sandy Antunes   "the Waupelani Kid" 'cause that's where I live...
antunes@ASTROD.psu.edu                 Penn State Astronomy Dept
------------        "que sera c'est la via"         -------------