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From: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Imagine memory usage.
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Date: 20 Oct 90 15:56:02 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from antunes@astro.psu.edu

> 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?

What do you guys expect.  If you are serious about any reasonable animation
and especially a good 3D animation program, you are going to have to realize
that it takes memory and peripherals to run it.  It's a fact of life.  Just
because you don't have enough memory doesn't mean the program has a bug.  I
think that everyone that does any work with animation realizes that you should
, and in alot of cases MUST have a minimum of 3 meg to work with.  I don't
care if you are a struggling student or whatever, the requirements do NOT
change.  It takes memory to run complex, feature laden graphics applications
and expecting them to run on a 1 meg machine is just rediculous.  And then you
expect to be multitasking 3 other programs!

I suggest that you and anyone else considering Imagine or another reasonable
graphics package do a reality check.  You will find that you'd best get some
additional hardware.

-- Bob
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