Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!uflorida!haven!decuac!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Awesome! No I am Pi**ed! Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 90 17:39:07 GMT References: Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Distribution: comp Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: bk@tadtec.uucp's message of 29 Nov 90 22:27:57 GMT In article bk@tadtec.uucp (Brian Kelly) writes: [Description of graphics display deleted.] needs constant tending to. I honestly cannot see any way of making that sort of thing work with exec still running. Apart from the space problem on a 512k machine, trying to get a copperlist that uses the wait instruction in anything apart from explicit mode, to work with MrgCop() (sp?) is pretty tedious. I have to admit I didn't try too hard but it seemed like a lotta work that I could avoid by running the show. Yup, you didn't try very hard. Remember, the AmigaOS is designed so you _can_ pretty much take over the machine, and give it back in a friendly fashion. Doing so should survive OS upgrades. That leaves the space problem. That's actually easy - you blow off the grahics demo unless 1) there's space to run it, or 2) your distribution disk was the boot disk. The only people who won't get the fancy graphics demo are the ones who install the program in a multitasking environment, but only have 512K. Do make sure to explain this in the manual to cut down on calls complaining about it being broken after the install, though.