| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 11.1 | GURU PROBLEMS | TRUMAN::LEIMBERGER | | Mon Jul 28 1986 07:00 | 6 |
| I experiance guru meditation errors while working with BASIC.If
anyone has any information on what wakes the guru please enlighten
me
bill
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| 11.2 | Some REFLECTIONS | NCCSB::JFISHER | John B. Fisher @NCO (DTN 367-4259) | Mon Jul 28 1986 10:23 | 34 |
| All sorts of thinks will make the Amiga start to contemplate the
fate of the world and other transcendental topics... One of the
most common is running out of memory !! Yes, the OS on this system
does not keep track of resources. As a result, when things get tight,
the OS has no earthly idea of anything that might be able to be
trashed, etc...
Some solutions:
1) Be certain you have at least 512K of memory. If you already
have that, then 1MB add ons might be a good idea (but
try to find a dealer, who will demonstrate that AmigaBasic
will work with it -- some programs don't !!)
2) I also have had occasional problems with AmigaBASIC trashing
the system. (Keep the WB disk handy !! & sometimes
it helps to power off & on !!)
** SMALL FLAME **
Why is Microsoft the 'industry leader' in BASIC, when
they turn out some of the most inconsistent, memory
hogs implementations of BASIC I have ever seen. SIGH!!
** End Small Flame **
3) The GURU numbers are occasionally discussed in USENET, and
I would recommend that everyone get on the
'net.micro.amiga' mailing list. It is very informative.
Hope that helps a bit...
-- John B. Fisher
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| 11.3 | basic memory crunch | TRUMAN::LEIMBERGER | | Tue Jul 29 1986 04:51 | 13 |
| Thanks John.I am running with 512k now,with no relief probable in
the near future.It appears that I need to develop some good habits,
like eraseing my sound arrays when not needed.To any other users
that may have memory shortages I believe you reclaim memory if you
unplug yor external drive.(not always desirable)I have no external
drive so have gotten into the bad habit of loading my entire CLI
directory into RAM: .This is ok most of the time but,unless you
really need the CLI the memory is better left available.Is the "FRE"
command of help? The example in my basic manual leaves me out in
the cold.Maybe it my inexperiance showing again,but I sure could
use another example.
bill
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| 11.4 | <some hints> | NCCSB::JFISHER | John B. Fisher @NCO (DTN 367-4259) | Tue Jul 29 1986 11:03 | 16 |
| You might want to take a look at the CLEAR command to help control
the amount of memory AmigaBASIC uses...
Re: C: in memory...
I am going to be writing some utilities/batch files
to help switch C: in and out of memory... As soon
as I get my modem, get back from BEST training, and
get my C-Kermit....
Till then be aware that AmigaBASIC probably takes almost all of
256K of memory !!! (rhetorical question -- just because the Amiga
can handle 8 MBytes of memory, do the programmers have to take all
of it ??)
-- John B. Fisher
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| 11.5 | 1.2 & AmigaBasic | TRUMAN::LEIMBERGER | | Sat Oct 04 1986 07:52 | 6 |
| I think AmigaBasic is not compatable with ver 1.2 betas.Is there
something I'm missing,or is this the case.If it is I wonder what
it will take to upgrade my current basic programs.A lot of good
PD stuff will be rendered useless.
bill
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| 11.6 | 'tis True | AUTHOR::MACDONALD | CUP/ML | Sun Oct 05 1986 22:58 | 6 |
| 'tis true .. but I'm sure it will not be the case when it is released.
You'll find that OnLine! will not work correctly in VT100 mode using
V1.2 Workbench either. The cure there is to run SETMAP USA0 from
V1.2 CLI before booting OnLine!.
Paul
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