Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!gecrdvm1!syspmzt From: SYSPMZT@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Rainbow TOS Bombs again Message-ID: <91150.105051SYSPMZT@GECRDVM1.BITNET> Date: 30 May 91 14:50:51 GMT References: <12020002@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM> <91148.111516SYSPMZT@GECRDVM1.BITNET> Organization: General Electric Corporate Research & Development Lines: 46 In article <91148.111516SYSPMZT@GECRDVM1.BITNET>, says: > >In article <12020002@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM>, freds@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM (Fred >Saavedra) says: >> >>I have recently installed the new? rainbow TOS in my mega2. >> >>*flameon* >>It seems to run less software than the old version, which >>is depressing since the my older 1040 which I sold for the Mega >>ran the largest set of software. >> >>Well is it my imagination??? >> >> > >I just bought a 1040 STe and upgraded the memory to 4 meg. I've noticed that >a lot of pd software others have suggested as great programs do not run or >bomb my system. Examples so far are CAL 5.0, which will not run, and MELT, >which melts the screen then bombs the system. Some of the software that I >wrote with Personal Pascal long ago (I gave up writing for the machine about >3 years ago) has some odd reactions on the STe that my old 1040 did not. > >I'm also interested in what the architectural differences are between an ST >and >an STe. > >Phil Z > > I should follow up, as this isn't quite correct. Actually, the offending software was the MACCEL mouse accelerator that Dr. T shipped as pd with KCS Omega. I'll miss the speed, but it was corrupting all sorts of software. I can't tell you if it would have on old TOS as I only started using it when I got my 1040STe (my old 1040 ST wouldn't read it's internal drive, so I had no ACC's or AUTO things loaded). CAL50 seems to run alright, although with other windowing software it seems to have problems keeping the mouse pointer visible on the screen. It's really hard to figure out who or what's causing a problem in the moving target public domain software world... Phil Z