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From: stu892103@gcc.uucp (Mr. Fantasy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Supercharger problems/questions/answers
Message-ID: <587@gcc.uucp>
Date: 14 Mar 91 02:32:37 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.162442.9741@cs.mcgill.ca>, depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (Acme
Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit) writes:
> Excuse me - does anyone out there who uses a supercharger
> have problems with the ST crashing when you hit ctrl-s to pause the
> output in emulation mode?  It is getting me quite frustrated.
>  
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I have had a few problems with Supercharger, including the ctrl-s freeze up
problem.  There seems to be some problems with the new version of the software. 
I have also experienced problems with using the Supercharger as a 1meg ramdisk
for the ST.  I discovered this when compressing/uncompressing files not long
after I got my Supercharger(SC).  I un-lharced a file that consisted of Degas
pictures and I could only view some of them, others were garbled badly, and the
rest couldn't be viewed at all.  So I thought what the heck, must have a bad
lharc-file here.  So, I used the test option and this seemed to be true.  But
then I took the same exact file and put it in a ST-internal-memory ramdisk and
checked it and it was fine.  So I (and others) have come to the assumption that
either I have a flakey memory chip in the SC, or that the ramdisk program is
defective.  Opinion is leaning toward the latter.
     I called Rio Computers, where I got the SC and told them the problem.  I
asked if they could send me the previous version of the software and they
gladly did this for free.  I've heard that some things run w/the older version
and not with the new (due to the lock-up bug).  Now I have both but haven't
tried the older version yet.  I also have an IBM diagnostics program that I
think will check the memory in the SC.  Very soon I will try to duplicate the
errors reliably and try out the old software.  I will post my findings.

     Anyone else having this kind of experience or already figured out the
problem?  I guess that the creators are working on the newest version to be out
soon.
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