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From: jwhitman@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Jerry Whitman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: NewTek Demo3 and 1 drive
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Date: 2 Mar 90 17:44:56 GMT
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The NewTek DEMOREEL3 is best run with two floppy drives, but it CAN be done
with just one drive.  Unfortunately the results are not optimal and you get
hyper-extension of the disk-eject button pushing finger.

To go through the process takes about 30+ disk swaps while the demoreel goes
back to the data disk to get more info.  Sometimes it only takes a second or
less and you have to swap the disk back.  As a result you see a lot of 
requestors and a very dis-jointed display that appears to be incomplete.  I 
would not recomment doing it if you are trying to impress someone with the
AMIGAs finess.

So, how does one run it properly if only one drive is available?  I have a
vanilla 2000HD with no extra drive and one meg of memory.

I tried copying the two disks into the HD and assigning each volume name the
directory path name containing that volumes files.  When I cd'd to the 
volume name and executed the demo It would start up and build the RAM files
and then just quit.  If I put the Data disk in df0: the demo may or may not 
get as far as building the sand textured backdrop for the NewTek billboard.
By reversing the procedure (DemoReel in df0: and using data from the HD) I 
got similar results, but occasionally it would get to the point of the 
stereo car horns.

I could not find a common thread as to why the extent of operation was so
variable.

Since I only have one meg of memory I doubt that I can affort to build a
virtual disk in core and still run the demo.  Can I build a virtual disk
in an existing partion of my HD?  I rather suspect not!  Is there a way
to build a virtual floppy on the HD without having to dump my HD and 
reformat it?

At this point any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!!
Regards, Jerry Whitman - keeper of the FishXref and FishCon.