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From: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Problems running TURTLE and TurboDOS on a Mega 4
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Date: 5 May 88 11:03:17 GMT
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I've just bought a Mega ST4 (including blitter), and now I'm having trouble
running Turtle. It always crashes after displaying the "work" screen (the one
saying "Drive A: ... disk needed ... etc."), displaying a varying number of
3 - 5 (!) bombs. Now I can't back up my hard disk :-(

What is the newest version of Turtle ? Has anyone sucessfully used this program
with 4 MB ?

Also, I seem not to be able to use TurboDOS at all. The instructions just say
"stick it into your AUTO folder". This I've done, in a number of combinations.
I have an SH204 and use HDB (by Konrad Hahn). When I boot from the hard disk
without any programs in the AUTO folder, the system enters an endless cycle of
reboots. Using FOLDER100 ( I have ~ 90 folders on partitions C: and D:) fixed
this. When I then added TURBODOS.PRG (both before and after FOLDER100), the
system booted normally, but after a few minutes of work with Gulaam, empty
directories and directories containing garbage began to appear. At this point,
a statement like "ls" or "cd" resulted in a return to the desktop, bombs and
a "frozen" system.

I suspect a problem with 4 MB, but I don't really know. Has anyone been able to
use TurboDOS with 4 MB ?

There are a number of programs that don't work correctly with 4 MB, but they're
not interesting. The only real problem was ETERNAL, which doesn't work due to
a hardware incompatibility of the Megas. I was able to fix that easily.

Any and all help is most welcome.

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