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From: dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Memory Shortage Problem????
Message-ID: <600@atari.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 12:04:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  6 12:04:06 1987
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> This
> is strange because NEO.PRG is only a 57k program and my Free RAM checker
> desk accessory tells me I have almost 200kbytes free.  Besides that, a much
> larger program such as STBASIC (140k) runs just fine.  Has anyone else
> had this problem?  Did I screw something up when installing the ROMs?  Any
> help would be GREATLY appreciated.  

The size of a program on disk has little to do with the extra
storage the program may require when it is run.  (You could
easily write a 1K program that needed 1 meg to run).

Neochrome simply needs a lot of memory for screen and cut
buffers.  You did NOT screw anything up installing the ROMs.

-- 
-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.	    {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer

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