news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) (12/21/87)
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news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) (12/21/87)
My brother is getting an Amiga500 for Christmas, and when it arrived a couple of days ago I took it out and put it through it's paces to see if it was working. First, kudos to C= for an excellent job! Everything seems to work, and considering the price, the built in keyboard is very good. However, when using the 501 expansion, I ran Textcraft and Online! simultaneously. Something very strange happened: there were no Icons visible for Textcraft. When switching screens I could not see the pencil icon, after I had clicked the Textcraft screen, but I could move the mouse around and make the pull down menus work, even though no mouse icon was visible. Any theories ? -- =============================================================================== || Paul Brody // The above is in no way meant to imply the || || pbrody@udenva \\// opinions of the University of Denver || ===============================================================================
sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) (12/21/87)
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Sun Aug 2 1987 on linus (berkeley-unix) In article <9633@udenva.cair.du.edu> news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes: > My brother is getting an Amiga500 for Christmas, and when it arrived a couple > of days ago I took it out and put it through it's paces to see if it was > working. First, kudos to C= for an excellent job! Everything seems to work, > and considering the price, the built in keyboard is very good. > > However, when using the 501 expansion, I ran Textcraft and Online! > simultaneously. Something very strange happened: there were no Icons > visible for Textcraft. When switching screens I could not see the pencil > icon, after I had clicked the Textcraft screen, but I could move the mouse > around and make the pull down menus work, even though no mouse icon was > visible. > > Any theories ? This is a well known problem of Textcraft. Textcraft was an early product that was never designed to work well with expansion memory. I used to have to disable expansion RAM on my A1000 to get Textcraft to work. Until Textcraft Plus became available, there were no upgrades or bug fixes ever issued for Textcraft. Actually, I'm surprised that anyone is still using Textcraft. There are much better word processors available for the Amiga; Abel Supply sells ProWrite for $73 (I think). Since I'm not sure if Textcraft is even supported anymore (anyone know?), you should either get Textcraft Plus, or some other word processor entirely. Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford.arpa UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,security,utzoo}!linus!sdl
campbell@cbmvax.UUCP (John Campbell SW) (12/22/87)
When trying to use Textcraft with Workbench 1.2, I suggest using NoFastMem. This may alleviate your problem. John Campbell
jck@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Chuck Kesler) (12/29/87)
In article <20118@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes: >In article <9633@udenva.cair.du.edu> news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes: >> However, when using the 501 expansion, I ran Textcraft and Online! >> simultaneously. Something very strange happened: there were no Icons >> visible for Textcraft. When switching screens I could not see the pencil >> icon, after I had clicked the Textcraft screen, but I could move the mouse >> around and make the pull down menus work, even though no mouse icon was >> visible. >> Any theories ? >This is a well known problem of Textcraft. Textcraft was an early >product that was never designed to work well with expansion memory. I >used to have to disable expansion RAM on my A1000 to get Textcraft to >work. Until Textcraft Plus became available, there were no upgrades >or bug fixes ever issued for Textcraft. Neither disabling expansion memory nor even getting TextCraft Plus would be the simplest/quickest/best solution to this problem, in my opinion. I, too, was in the same situation after adding 2 meg of fast mem to my A1000, but I had no desire/money to purchase a new word processor (don't do a lot of word processing to begin with, so TextCraft is fine). Here is my solution: 1) Get the program FixHunk from Fish Disk #36. This utility does something along the lines of modifying brain dead executables in such a way that data structures which need to be in CHIP ram are loaded there instead of FAST ram-- the crux of this problem involves data structures describing icons and such being loaded into fast (expansion) mem. Read the doc file included with FixHunk for a complete description of what this program does. 2) COPY the TextCraft executable (TextCraft or TextCraft512, whichever you prefer) to a new file. For bext results, place this new file on your ram disk. 3) Run FixHunk on the copy of the TextCraft executable, and BOOM! you have an executable which should work just fine. 4) Try running the FixHunked executable. If it performs to your satisfaction, replace to original copy of TextCraft with the modified version. You might run across this problem with other programs, so FixHunk is is a very useful utility. I have yet to find a program which could not be repaired using this method, which is not saying that this will *always* solve your problem, but at least it seems to take care of *most* problems. And it is definitely preferable to all this "NoFastMemFirstSlowMemLast" business. Hope this helps! -chuck jck@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu -or- chuck@ncsuvm.BITNET p.s. If you can't find a copy of FixHunk, let me know, and I will E-mail a copy to you.
cgiufur@pica.army.mil (FSA) (03/22/89)
Gentlemen;
In the past my Amiga 500 has been occasionally rebooting. I have been
living with the problem and in fact it wasn't rebooting as often. This
weekend it shut down but did not come back on. The only sign of life was
the caps lock light was on. After a while I was able to get the system back
up to where it asks for the workbench disk. I put the game disk in I was
playing at the time and everything appeared okay. Ten minutes later the
same thing happened, but this time it was difficult to get the system up.
When I finally got the hand on the screen asking for workbench the picture
was distorted. Nothing I did solved the problem so I turn the machine off
until Monday to see if cooling down over night would make a difference, but
it didn't.
I have been reading mail on problems like this and I thought the rebooting
was caused by a faulty pwer supply. Now that the machine is not responding
at all I am not sure it is just the power supply. If anyone has any helpful
advice I would appreciate hearing from you. Contact me at 201-724-3876 or
email cgiufur@ARDEC.ARPA.
Charlie Giufurta