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From: bobb@tekfdi.UUCP (Robert Bales)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Deluxe Video
Message-ID: <506@tekfdi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 00:28:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekfdi.506
Posted: Mon Sep 15 00:28:02 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Sep-86 22:05:26 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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Keywords: memory use


I have had Deluxe Video for about two months and am quite pleased with it.
However, today something happened that has me puzzled. When I attempted to
put four animated objects on the screen at once, the program told me that
this would require more memory than was available in the parts pool. I can
accept this. I may not like it, but I can accept it. (I've got a 512 K
machine. I've always said I'll buy more memory when I find something that
needs it.) However, when I run "vidcheck," it lists all my objects in the
parts pool, but says the pool is only 3% full! The total file size,
including one background, which the manual seems to indicate is not in the
parts pool, is 59048 bytes. I booted with the Deluxe Video disk and had
nothing else running.

More disturbing, when I ran vidcheck to compact a file, the result would not
load. It started to, but when the drive stopped and the LED went off, the
"ZZZ" pointer remained and I couldn't do anything except move the pointer
and blank the window title (but not bring up menus) with the right mouse
button.

	Bob Bales
	Tektronix