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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

4486.0. "Pen-Pal upgrades from Write-n-File" by GOBAMA::WILSONTL (Lead Trumpet (Read that...LEED!)) Mon Feb 04 1991 12:05

    Pen-Pal upgrades are still available (much to my surprise) from
    SoftWood.  Just send in the Write-n-File diskette and $50.00 and they
    will send you the kit.  Due to the vastly reduced cost, I am going to
    take this path.
    
    Tony
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4486.1SoftwoodDECWET::DAVISSay what?Mon Feb 04 1991 12:179
    Speaking of Softwood, I have gotten updates of Pen Pal twice now
    without even asking!  Great service, although Pen Pal has a problem
    dealing with more than 4meg of memory unless you set its preferences to
    a low percentage which is almost impossible because it will not let me
    get to preferences due to my having more than 4meg of memory...
    I ended up setting the memory preferences on my 1meg A500 then
    transfering the software to the A2000.  I notified Softwood.
    
    md
4486.2Set preferences?MKODEV::OSBORNEBlade WalkerTue Feb 12 1991 13:5310
re:.1
>Pen Pal has a problem dealing with more than 4meg of memory unless you set 
>its preferences to a low percentage which is almost impossible because it 
>will not let me get to preferences due to my having more than 4meg of memory...

Could you elaborate on this, please? I am about to add 2 meg to my Ami, but
Pen Pal is working fine at the moment, so what must I do to preferences before
I put in the new memory board?

Thanks
4486.3Worked ok on A2000, but will verify tonightDECWET::DAVISSay what?Tue Feb 12 1991 15:2820
    When I installed Pen Pal I had 3meg of ram.  I set the Pen Pal
    preferences to use 50% of available ram.  When I added another 2meg Pen
    Pal would hang upon startup consistently.  After mucking around I found
    that if the percentage of ram used(allocated) totalled more than 2meg
    the program would hang.  I made adjustments to the Pan Pal preferences
    to get around this symptom.  I must add that I was using an A500 with a
    midget racer(68020), a 1Meg Agnus(self installed),and hard drive/memory
    expansion sub-system. i.e. not a "vanilla" amiga.  The symptom could
    have been caused by other factors like a stuck bit in memory or the
    1meg agnus I installed.   I started up Pen Pal(last night, in fact)
    on my A2000 and it appears to have allocated approx 3meg with no
    problems.  The symptom was consistent on my A500 but I have not tested
    Pen Pal on the A2000.  I will test it tonight and let you know what I
    find in this note.
    
    >what must I do to preferences... 
    I would not do a thing unless the symptom presents itself.  If it does, 
    then set the percentage so that the total memory allocated is around
    2Meg and try it again.  Softwood says that I shouldn't have problems
    with memory allocation.
4486.4Pen Pal version 1.3.13 works fine!DECWET::DAVISSay what?Wed Feb 13 1991 11:404
    Pen Pal works fine on my 9meg Amiga.  I have Pen Pal version 1.3.13.
    
    md