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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Misc A3000 Q's
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Message-ID: <1990Dec4.150322.29484@javelin.es.com>
Date: 4 Dec 90 15:03:22 GMT
References: <426@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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vervalin@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Paul Vervalin) writes:

>2) What is the status of SID 2.0?  I tried using 1.06 and as long as you use
>   the VOL gadget instead of the device gadgets it will kinda work, but it
>   is very "sluggish" (i.e. it takes over a minute to load up directories 
>   sometimes).  If SID 2.0 isn't going to be out for awhile is there a work
>   around for this "sluggishness" problem?

SID 1.06 does have several problems with 2.0, but it may be a while
before SID 2.0 comes out. The author does have an A3000 now, but hasn't
had much time for programming lately (this is from a friend that calls
the author's BBS).

1) SID does not like the >24 bit address space of the A3000, to fix this,
just make a little script:

Run NoFastMem
SID
Run NoFastMem

This forces SID to run in Chip RAM, and works around that problem. (If
you've only got 1M of Chip RAM, this might be a problem.)

2) SeperateDirs=YES can cause random crashes, change this to
SeperateDirs=NO in the s:SID.config file.

3) SID can't extract archives under 2.0, this is because it's looking
for NEWCON:. This can be fixed by using NewZap to change all occurences
of "NEWCON:xxxxxxx" to "CON:xxxxxxx   ". You might also be able to fix
this by mounting ConMan as NEWCON:, but I haven't tried that.

-- 
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