sansom@trwrb.UUCP (Richard Sansom) (10/22/86)
In article <1351@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes: > > As far as I can tell, my copy of 'alite' arrived intact. At least it >un ARC'ed. But when I tried to run it (without a MIDI module attached-- >just to see if it worked) it loaded and then just seemed to return to the >desktop without displaying the picture. Is this right? There were no >bombs, just nothing. > Alite does not work on monochrome systems (I should have stated this fact when I posted the beast). If you have a color system, then be sure to extract both 1alite.pic and 1alite.sng and store them on the same disk as alite.prg. -Rich -- __________ ______ ____ _____ ___ /_________//___ ||__|/____|/__/ Richard E. Sansom ___ ____/ / ____________ TRW Electronics & Defense Sector / / / /\ < | /| / One Space Park Drive, R3/1028 / / / / \ \ | / | / Redondo Beach, CA 90278 /__/ /__/ \__\|__/ |__/ {...decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!sansom
jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (10/28/86)
In article <1372@trwrb.UUCP> sansom@trwrb.UUCP (Richard Sansom) writes: > ... >Alite does not work on monochrome systems (I should have stated this >fact when I posted the beast). If you have a color system, then be sure >to extract both 1alite.pic and 1alite.sng and store them on the same disk >as alite.prg. > Actually, the problem wasn't monochrome, but some kind of conflict with the 512K RAM Disk I was using on my 1040ST. It's definitely the *presence* of the RAM disk since it makes no difference whether I run from the floppy or the RAM Disk. It doesn't work either way. If I boot without the RAM Disk, 'alite' works fine. > Cheers! -- Jim O. -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura (416) 652-3880