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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga500 Problem
Message-ID: <20118@linus.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 03:10:31 GMT
References: <9633@udenva.cair.du.edu>
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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In-reply-to: news@udenva.cair.du.edu's message of 21 Dec 87 01:20:55 GMT

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Sun Aug  2 1987 on linus (berkeley-unix)



In article <9633@udenva.cair.du.edu> news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes:

>   My brother is getting an Amiga500 for Christmas, and when it arrived a couple
>   of days ago I took it out and put it through it's paces to see if it was
>   working. First, kudos to C= for an excellent job! Everything seems to work,
>   and considering the price, the built in keyboard is very good.
> 
>   However, when using the 501 expansion, I ran Textcraft and Online! 
>   simultaneously. Something very strange happened: there were no Icons
>   visible for Textcraft. When switching screens I could not see the pencil
>   icon, after I had clicked the Textcraft screen, but I could move the mouse
>   around and make the pull down menus work, even though no mouse icon was 
>   visible.
> 
>   Any theories ?

This is a well known problem of Textcraft.  Textcraft was an early
product that was never designed to work well with expansion memory.  I
used to have to disable expansion RAM on my A1000 to get Textcraft to
work.  Until Textcraft Plus became available, there were no upgrades
or bug fixes ever issued for Textcraft.

Actually, I'm surprised that anyone is still using Textcraft.  There
are much better word processors available for the Amiga; Abel Supply
sells ProWrite for $73 (I think).  Since I'm not sure if Textcraft is
even supported anymore (anyone know?), you should either get Textcraft
Plus, or some other word processor entirely.


Steven Litvintchouk
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