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From: jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathon Sivier )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Bug in Deluxe Paint III
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.174815.24734@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 17:48:15 GMT
Sender: Jonathan Sivier (jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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   I have run into a problem with Deluxe Paint III.  I have an Amiga 2000 with
1 Meg of chip ram, 4 megs of fast ram, a CSA 68020 accelerator card with a
68881 math co-processor.  I was working with two pictures 640 * 400 * 4 (16
colors).  I cut a very large brush (aprox. 400 * 350) out of the back buffer,
and tried to blend it onto the front buffer.  I got the message that there was
not enough memory for the operation.  So I deleted the back buffer and tried
again.  Same error message.  Then I went out to the CLI and did AVAIL, it
showed me as having over 500 KBytes of chip ram free with the largest block
being about 330 Kbytes, and almost 4 Mbytes of fast ram free.  So what is the
deal here?  There is no way that I didn't have enough memory for the operation,
no matter what the operation was.  Does DPaint not pay attention the actual
amount of free space, or what?  I wasn't running the Workbench so couldn't
free any memory that way.  I could remove the resident commands I have and so
free up a little more chip ram, but if 500 K plus isn't enough then I don't
think that will help.  I like Dpaint in general, but this is a very annoying
sort of problem, and so meaningless.  If anyone has any insights into this
I would be glad to here them.

Thanks,
Jonathan


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