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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: Zip, Startup Test, Tool 35b2, DragonWars GS
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Date: 30 Jan 91 15:16:37 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.082453.23807@utstat.uucp> philip@.uucp.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
|Is the Zip GSX capable of passing the startup tests at 100%. Mine does
|not( gives System Bad and error 0204FF00 one time and 0C000005
|another time).
|
|However, when I turn the Zip off the tests pass!

I assume you mean the control-OA-Option-Reset startup test, right? If so,
the test won't pass at full speed. I believe one of the tests measures the
timing of something, and it gets screwed up if the processor is running faster
than it should. Check the Zip HS stack... there's a switch somewhere that
will let the GS pass the test.

|I am still using 5.0.2, and I bought DragonWars GS. Every time I play it
|(and this is a VERY good program) with tool35b2, the GS really crashes
|some short time later.

Dunno about that...

|This problem did not seem to happen with the TWGS( others did, like heat).
|Any possibility that the settings could cause this?
|
|Philip McDunnough
|University of Toronto
|philip@utstat.toronto.edu
|
|[slot2= Audio Animator, Zip GSX( 8MHz,16k) in 4, Apple DMA in 7, Harris
|memory Simm card )]