rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) (12/06/87)
Well, it seems there is another bug in Popcli III. Just try 1> run popcli 30 and then press Left-Amiga-Esc: the drive (where c: is) spins for a moment and nothing happens. The new 'screen-blanker' works all right but the automatic launch is defeated. Same for values of 10 and 40 seconds. I didn't have time to figure out the limit value for which Popcli will work (it works with default value and 240s). Anyway, despite I *love* the new feature (let's keep the secret :-), I'd rather have the old screen-blanker : at least I can sleep while the Amiga is still on and working, and also it won't eat CPU-time I need for Ray-tracing !! -- *- Francois Rouaix / When the going gets tough, * *- USENET:rouaix@inria.inria.fr \/ the guru goes meditating...* * SYSOP of Sgt. Flam's Lonely Amigas Club. (33) (1) 39-55-84-59 (Videotext) *
ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) (12/15/87)
In article <587@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes: > [talking about PopCLI III] ... > and also it won't eat CPU-time I need for Ray-tracing !! Actually Tom runs the screen blanker as a low priority task, and your ray tracing (provided it's running at 0 or -5 or something reasonable) should get all the CPU it wants... Of course, the input handler has to to run a high priority (to so that it can look at the input stream), and that caused some of PopCLI III's problems... Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu BTW: Reminder to those of you who have FTP access and who want the BKDC demos asap --- They are available on sushi.stanford.edu, in <bkdc>. More and more are available everyday --- check out the file README for info. (The files are not compressed --- mainly because Sushi is a Dec20.)