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From: sjun@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Sungtaeg Jun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Few questions/observations about the A3000
Keywords: KS 2.0
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Date: 3 May 91 02:42:12 GMT
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Several Stuffs

1. Putting K.S. 2.0 into ROM.:
As a recent owner of A3000, I agree that K.S. should be
in ROM. My machine is basic model with 1MB Fast RAM.
When I turn the machine on there is only 200KB available fast ram.
The speed is dragging when you try to run more than 1 program.
Although the price of the DRAM is dirt cheap in now days (;-)),
there are many people who expect to run the system
witout  upgrading for some time. I think the additional memory
released by Kick Start should be good enough for many applications
except video works.

2. Disappearance of a directory.
A wierd thing happend to my A3000 this morning.
I was looking for a painting program and evaluating some of the
demos and public domain first.
Last night, I have downloaded a demo program called spectracolor
from oxxiipainting. When my son (5yrs) saw this, he wanted play
with it and I let him to do so and left the house for some extra works.
My son was really hooked in this and got up early in the morning
to try it again. Then, he came to me and told me that he cannot find
the painting program. I went to see it and found out that not only
the directory containing the spectracolor but also its parent
directory is gone. Fortunately, I could reinstall most of the
stuffs in that directory except some Public domain programs that took
me several days to download. Also, it took me entire evening
to do that. I know that there is possibility
that my son may have deleted the directory accidentally though I
doubt it as it requires the exact sequence of key pressing.
Any way, I made it clear to my son no to turn on the computer by himself.
What I want to know is that the demo program erase itself after several
trials and accidentally erase its parent directory along its own directory?

3. DefaultIcon.lzh in ab20
It may be old story but here it goes.
There are several K.S. 2.0 utilities in ab20 at amiga/utils/2.0/.
Among them DefaultIcon is a quite handy utility for WB2.0.
It does create default icons for several files/directories/etc.
whether they already have icons or not. It even changes
the directory icons from WB1.3 to WB2.0 form.
Its manual is quite clear with step by step instruction.
When you put this icon into wbstartup drawer, it is supposed to create
a window where you can drag the other icons to chage them to
defaults.
The problem with it is that its window does not show up when you try
the program. It turns out that its default window position is
outside workbench. I found this out by changing the monitor resolution
into super high resolution.
To fix this problem, you have to change CWindow_XPOS(?), and CWindow_YPOS(?)
value from its information window. The name of variable is not exact
but you will now it when you check its information.
Try several values of X and Y positions until you can see the window.
I have set them X=150 Y=240. Most of the values does not seem to work
as they should be.

4. Need some help with information gadget.
Why some icons have default tools gadget while others don't in their
information menu?

                     - Sung Jun -