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From: steve@amiga.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint dials out!?!
Message-ID: <1019@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 11:54:53 EST
Article-I.D.: amiga.1019
Posted: Tue Apr 22 11:54:53 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Apr-86 23:56:19 EST
References: <1414@vax135.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos, CA
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Summary: Yes, DPaint does use the serial port

In article <1414@vax135.UUCP>, cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes:
> I just witnessed a very strange problem with Deluxe Paint.  I loaded it
> by booting Workbench in df0: and putting Deluxe Paint in df1:.  Then,
> cd df1: and dpaint hi, then put my images disk in df0:.
> 
> I painted around for a while, eventually playing with brushes:
> flipping, bending, rotating, shearing.  I ended up with a fairly big,
> very warped brush, about 1/4 screen wide; but it was not in the
> "outline mode" that dpaint uses when almost out of memory.
> 
> Then the weirdest thing happened.  Dpaint dialed out on my Hayes
> SmartModem!  From the sound of the 7 touchtones, it *could* have been

I have my Amiga hooked up to a terminal line on a Sun workstation with the
output going to one of the windows.  I use this for debuggin purposes.
I was using DPaint the other day and was shearing a brush in hi-res
mode when "poof", diagnostic messages started scrolling up the Sun screen.
This is what came out:-

Dalloc: Allocation FAILURE:(4876 bytes) memavail = 12848

I guess EA forgot to remove a diagnostic or two!  Still, it's not exactly
going to affect the multi-tasking capabilities, is it ? [:-)

	Steve