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From: drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in Deluxe Paint III
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.201447.25300@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 90 20:14:47 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.174815.24734@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In a message from: jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathon Sivier )

>   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

[stuff about running out of memory in DPaint III deleted]
>...Does DPaint not pay attention the actual
>amount of free space, or what?...
>...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.

AND, the newest Amiga World says that DPaint is limited by available RAM.
Why doesn't fast RAM count?  I too have 5 megs (1 chip, 4 fast) and keep
running out during operations when I have plenty of chip, but even more
surprisingly, lots of fast RAM.  

At any rate, I think Amiga World guilded the lily a bit (to say the least).

Rick Tillery
(drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)