whitcomb@aurs01.uucp (Jonathan Whitcomb) (03/19/91)
I am a "power user" of Codehead/LGF software. I use the Codehead RAM disk with Pinhead and Codecopy to boot up directly from the RAM disk...really fast. This is great now that I have it working, but it took quite alot of tinkering to get it going. At first I'd get several automatic reboots before the thing settled down, random crashes and so forth. It turned out that the main culprit was the Atari mouse accellerator program. I think I tried using all three generations of the program, and all of them interfered with the boot process. Finally I just trashed them and got a Golden Image mouse (which tracks twice as fast) and I've had no problems. Occasionally I will still find that I've booted up in low resolution for no apparent reason, but it doesn't bother me much because the reboot is so fast. The rest of my setup includes Hotwire!, Maxifile, Multidesk, and Lookit and Popit. I use Hotwire!/Maxifile all the time, and even boot up with it as my default desktop. The only time I ever exit to the atari desktop is to change resolutions. Am I missing a method that will let me do this in Hotwire? Or is there a PD program that will do this for me? I don't like to exit to the desktop after using Mark William's C Emacs, because Hotwire! crashes when I re-enter it afterwards. The Little Green File Selector complements the system well, but it I have found that I don't use most of the feature of the last umpteen versions. I recently read that Codehead has just released major upgrades for Hotwire and Maxifile, and are working on a Utilities upgrade. Has anyone tried them? My gut feeling is to wait a few months more to upgrade, because new versions seem to pop up every few weeks. ********************************************************************** Jonathan Whitcomb UUCP: <...!mcnc!aurgate!whitcomb> (919) 850-6231 I'm not a software engineer, Raleigh, NC but I play one on TV.