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From: bscott@isis.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: GOMF 3.0 and SetPatch
Summary: Incompatibility with the ^ option?
Keywords: GOMF setpatch
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.051927.747@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 05:19:27 GMT
Reply-To: bscott@isis.UUCP (Ben Scott)
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I recently received GOMF 3.0 (with the button) in a swap and am having some
troubles with getting it to coexist with my system.  Well, not really bad
troubles, actually, but...

Once I put it into my startup sequence (replacing GOMF 1.0) everything was
fine until I read part of the manual and found the "&" and "^" options.  The
"^" is the problem - it's supposed to keep an eye on low-memory vectors,
but when it is selected, every startup it warns of a problem at $00C0.  I
tracked it down to the Setpatch command (which I use with the "r" option 
'cause of the Super Agnus).  This seems to be something GOMF doesn't expect
and it interprets it as a bad program.  Is there an updated version of GOMF
I should have that takes this into account?  I don't want to run with less
protection than necessary, but I also won't change the Setpatch invocation.

Also, what is the button supposed to do?  It's hooked up to a daughterboard
which lives under Paula and it does the job the manual claims for it when I
try the demos, but the two or three methods for locking up the machine I can
think of to try myself seem to do no good.  And of course it does nothing 
when there isn't anything wrong.   

And the manual states that GOMF "sleeps" until needed.  Well, GOMF 1.0 did
this but according to Xoper, 3.0 uses a considerable amount of CPU time.
Currently I'm using ChangeTaskPri to reset it down a bit (though it doesn't
really busy wait, it seems to grab about 30% of the CPU time).  I don't 
expect help with this "problem", but just thought I'd report it.  

All I can say is that I'm sure glad I didn't buy GOMF the few times I was
tempted to.  I feel I got my money's worth in the deal (I paid postage plus
something I paid about $2 for...), but I don't think it's worth the retail
price.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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