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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Trouble with FaccII
Message-ID: <1294@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 01:30:00 GMT
References: <259@afit-ab.arpa> <19723@amdahl.amdahl.com>
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: facc problems
Summary: A meg is more than enough for DPII.

I think they're Dpaint II problems.

kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
> strovink@afit-ab.arpa (Mark Strovink) writes:
> >    When I finish running WordPerfect or dPaint II while FACC II is going,
> > everything freezes solid.
> >    My startup sequence mounts VD0: (size of 1.5M), loads WB, copies
> >    I am running on an Amiga 1000 with 2 drives, 512K chip, and 2M
> > RAM-BOard.
> I believe your problem will be eliminated if you reduce the size of vd0:
> to something a little more conserative (say 1 Meg).  As it is, you're
> only leaving WordPerfect and DPaint a half a Meg of FAST to run in, and
> neither is a particularly small program.

Since DPaint-II works fine in 512K, but screws up in my 4.5 Meg amiga with 2
Meg free, with or without FACC, I suspect that the problem is not related to
the amount of free space in RAM.

My symptoms are:

	1) Dpaint starts screwing up in Shade mode.
	2) Random junk then begins to take over the workbench screen.
	3) Finally I visit Mr. Guru.

So, I reboot to run Dpaint. Since my 4 MEG board isn't autoconfig, I can run
in 512K all I want and then reboot my 4 Meg workbench and get back all of vd0:.

Autoconfig isn't all it's cracked up to be...
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