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From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: TAD/ADpro information.
Message-ID: <1644@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 27 May 91 03:06:22 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises, Inc.
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I've been thinking of purchasing the Art Department, having spent a few
hours playing with the demo.  I'm VERY impressed with the look of the
program, and it's amazingly simple interface.  I've got a few questions
for people who've used it...

When I run the demo, I often get a message that I don't have enough
memory to handle the picture.  I'm trying to load a 120K gif, and I've
got 3 megs of ram on a four-year-old A500.  Is this part of the
crippled nature of the demo?  If not, has the problem been addressed in
the current release of the software?

I noticed that the demo grabs a LOT of memory when it's first run,
rather than grabbing it as-needed.  Since I have three megs, this
shouldn't be a problem, but I was wondering if the live version works
this way, or does dynamic allocation?

Does the REXX support allow access to all of the commands that are in
the Intuition interface?  Are there any commands that are available
ONLY through REXX?  (I think I might have found a reason to get more
profficient at AREXX...<grin>).

Thanks in advance for any help you folks can give me in making a
purchasing decision!  I haven't spent that much of my own money on one
software package since WordPerfect!

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 *         Bill Cavanaugh       bleys@tronsbox.xei.com          *
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