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From: esalbert@s3frobozz.ARPA (Eric Salberta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Swinth and other mind blasters
Summary: Problem is (I think) with Fast RAM
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Date: 1 Feb 89 07:02:31 GMT
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In article <354@antares.UUCP> pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson) writes:
>
> Well, I have a disk called Kaleidoscope, it has some problems, though. It
>came with my Amiga 1000, I think. It says "Free Software from Electronic
>Electronic Arts" right on the disk, does that mean I can copy it? Along with
>a slideshow of EA ads, there is a program called Polyscope demo, written by
>Dan Silva. It generates some fairly nice looking patterns, but doesn't run
>well on my 2000, I think it needs kickstart 1.1, or maybe 1.0. It also
>doesn't have an icon, or an exit (the demo ran from boot, as I remember).
>
> The Polyscope did run from the CLI, though some of the patterns didn't look
>right. It crashed when I tried to put the screen in the back, maybe it didn't
>like DMouse.
>
>So whatever happened to Polyscope?
>-- 
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[This is for the line eater if it still exists]

Phil:
	I used to have that Polyscope demo too, and I liked it.  It worked
just fine until I expanded my A1000 by adding 2M of Fast RAM.  At that
point, the display became fouled up whenever I ran it.  I don't
remember it crashing the machine, but then the display was fouled up
enough that I didn't use it for very long.  So it's quite possible that
this demo was written on the assumption of only Chip RAM, and of course
the A2000 comes with Fast RAM (well, half-fast :-)) already included.

Did anyone ever get this program to run on a machine with Fast RAM?  I
really liked it, but not enough to give up the memory.  I really should
dig it up again and see if NoFastMem would work.

						 Eric R. Salberta
						(esalbert@scubed.com)