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From: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Games That Multitask
Keywords: Ram:, ram:, RAM:, multi-tasking, Battle Chess
Message-ID: <139@ziggy.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 03:57:27 GMT
References: <1044@hub.ucsb.edu> <2746@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <1926@eneevax.UUCP>
Reply-To: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Organization: Un*x Link,Frederick Md.
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In article <1926@eneevax.UUCP> smaug@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Kurt Lidl) writes:
>game, I had ~429K of chip ram available - after running, it varies from
>9 to 15K free!  Unfortunately, it also puts a lock <?> on the workbench
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>screen - you cannot drag or resize windows and have the action "take".

the "lock" on the workbench is really the lack of chip ram.  if there's not
enough chip ram to actually slice and dice the windows to save a copy of
the window you're moving and recreate the stuff that was hidden underneath
and then plop the copy of the moved window on top and re-hide the newly
covered stuff, the move simply won't happen.  i've also had situations where
i couldn't close a window when almost out of chip ram.

>==================================================================
>==  Kurt J. Lidl  (smaug@eneevax.umd.edu)	(301)454-3184	==
>==  UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!smaug		==
>========"It's after 3am, no point in going to sleep now..."=======

  --Scotty