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From: hbrinch@icoast.UUCP (Henrik Brinch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:   Mike Farren Tutorial.
Message-ID: <18ec731b.ARN0f5b@icoast.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 91 15:32:27 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.002244.11549@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, Ethan Solomita writes:

> In article <18ead851.ARN0f31@icoast.UUCP> hbrinch@icoast.UUCP writes:
> >
> >I tell you the problem.  MEMORY - not everybody has 1Mb (or more) and
> >killing the system will give you app. 200Kb more and the ability for more
> >sophisticated diskloaders / protections.
> >(Please don't flame me about this, I'm a system-programmer and wouldn't
> > kill the system.... I'll do anything to keep that wonderfull system alive!).
> 
> 	Well, I will flame you about that ridiculous statistic of
> 200K! MAYBE, if you have a highres overscan WB, the screen will

Excuse me, I said "app."!  Okay, I probably mentioned a too large number
BUT judge for yourself, you have from $c0-$7ffff (app. 524000 bytes)
then break the CLI sequence and check your memory (AVAIL you know).
You have the CLI/WB screen (app.(!!!!!) 80K) + the exec/dos system do I
really have to tell you more?
If it isn't 200K it's less, but not much less.... still enough memory for
quite some game-effects (levels/sounds etc.).

> take up 100K+, but then the workbench screen can always be
> CLOSED!

Why SHOULDN'T it be closed, I would say it's pretty strange to kill the
system and leave the WB screen open !

> 	-- Ethan

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