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From: john13@garfield.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Never got ASDG ramdisk (Also DPAint II w 1M)
Message-ID: <3443@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 14:14:38 EST
Article-I.D.: garfield.3443
Posted: Tue Feb  3 14:14:38 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Feb-87 19:48:30 EST
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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Keywords: help

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The ASDG ramdisk never made it to this site, although all of the subsequent
discussion did, as well as the re-posting of delete_ramdisk. I would be
greatly appreciative of receiving a copy by e-mail (especially as I am right
now trying out the C-LTD 1 meg expansion at home).

Speaking of which, DPaint II seems to be inconsistent in the way it handles
the extended memory.
- Running it out of the ramdisk (by clicking on the icon) crashes with 
  fireworks.
- Selecting 640X400 with lots of colours has caused lockups shortly after
  loading finishes; this may have been related to (1) above.
(some of these crashes brought it right back to the kickstart prompt!)
- there was 1 lockup while drawing with a brush in 320X400X5
- there seems to be some limit on the size of a brush not governed by amount
  of available chip memory, ie you can't just take a 320X200 screen as a brush
  in 640X200 and double it horizontally, you have to take it in pieces

However, it is *wonderful* to be able to use a spare screen while running in
640X400X4, or run Aegis Draw and DPaint II and VT100 and Shell and...etc
all at the same time!

1 reproducible bug, which occurs with or without extended memory:
resize the big square pen while twiddling the shift and control keys.
guru, blank screen or fireworks - take your pick.

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Let's not forget about the ramdisk!

john13@garfield.mun.cdn (cdnnet)
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