Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!hsdndev!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!wookumz.ai.mit.edu!rjc From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Educational Keywords: Education Message-ID: <1990Dec17.001535.10987@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 17 Dec 90 00:15:35 GMT References: <1990Dec6.005924.15705@daimi.aau.dk> <1990Dec6.052556.17606@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <7284@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: None Lines: 26 In article <7284@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1990Dec6.052556.17606@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >> >1 A-500, 1 ext.diskdrive, 1MB, a 1084 monitor all for $400 > >> The bundle is $759, including AmigaVision. > >What can you do with AmigaVision on a 1 Meg 500? I can barely run it on a 2 >Meg 3000! Huh? It runs fine on my machine with only 1 meg free. With 1 meg you can't load ANIMs but you can make simple slide shows with samples and smus's playing. Take CDAUG's electric disk magazine, it runs fine in 1 meg. AmigaVision is a huge overlay I think, and it also has a good caching mechanism. When AV encounters low memory conditions on my machine it starts constantly loading and reloading from disk(I assume it flushs its buffers and reloads stuff that it needs). With a A3000 you have 1.5 megs free(kickstart eats 500k) and with AV eating 600-700k that leaves you about 600k left to work with. Most ANIMs require atleast 1meg. I surmise this is the reason behind recommendations of 3meg or more. >(speaking of which, is there ever going to be a REAL runtime-only version of > AmigaVision? It chews up way too many K.) >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >.