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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Chip problem?
Message-ID: <395@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 09:08:23 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.395
Posted: Thu Mar  5 09:08:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 11:55:03 EST
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Sounds like the Agnus might be bad


Your Amiga going nuts with Flightsim II sounds very similar to what
happened to me about a year ago just a couple of months after I got
my Amiga.  For the last year, it has purred along quite happily
(knock on wood).

What happend to me only (or at least primarily) showed up when
running Amiga (microsoft) Basic.  The music demo program was the
killer.  It would run for about 2 to 5 minutes and then all heck
would break loose, with the most bizarre sounds you've heard coming
out, and some really wild looking video that I can't really
describe.  It turned out that Basic uses some interrupt mode
particularly heavily that brought Agnus to its knees.

The bad part (that's a play on words, son) is that it took 3 new
Agnuses (Agni ??) to get the machine working again.  It wasn't
completely terrible, as the whole mess was covered under warranty.
I still wound up paying about $25 in gasoline and lots of lost time
as the local dealer is about 45 min. away.

With all the reported problems with Flightsim lately, it sounds
like its a good program to have around to smoke out marginal
hardware.

  --Bill