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From: la@doc.ic.ac.uk (Liaket Ali)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Blitter, AmigaDOS & Multitasking + Weird Workbench
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Date: 16 Nov 90 15:39:02 GMT
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This is just to thank the people who sent me replies to my questions regarding
a few problems I was having.

I have summarised the results.

-Blitter, AmigaDos & Multitasking-
I received many replies with different solutions to the problem. Unfortunately
none of them seemed to work, probably bacause I need to hog the blitter in my
level editor for a long time thus breaking the multitasking rules regarding 
the blitter (i.e. using the blitter for short periods only). Hence I've decided
to switch off multitasking completely (using Forbid() and Permit() )
This allows my program to work without the disk drives going crazy.

-Weird Workbench-
1. Workbench occasionally booting into NTSC mode.
   This, I was told is a bug in the Amiga and can be rectified with a program
   call PALRESET (or something similar in name). I have not yet got this program
   so I cannot comment on its effectiveness. I would appreciate it if someone
   could mail it to me or give me pointers to a source. However please don't
   send me ftp sites outside the UK as I am unable to access them. 
2. Crashing the system by manipulating windows.
   This is a common bug on all Amigas ( I don't know about WB2.0 though...)
   I'm surprised that Commodore have not done anything about this. Ah well,
   we live in hope..... 8-)

Well that's all for now. By the way I've written a 2 player SPACE-COMBAT game
for the Amiga. Would it be okay to post it to comp.sys.amiga.sources/binaries?
I only ask because I don't remember having ever seen a game distributed there
and I wonder if this is due to a no-games-lets-keep-the-amiga-a-serious-tool
policy.

If it's okay to send, then could someone in the UK with international mail
sending ability contact me if they are willing to post for me.( I can't post
outside to sites outside the UK academic network.)

That's all for now.

LIAKET ALI     aka     /\/\AD /\/\AX

e-mail: la@doc.ic.ac.uk