870646c@aucs.UUCP (barry comer) (03/03/88)
Hi all, well Atari finally sent me my blitter chip(thank you ATARI), but there seems to be a problem with Assempro now. Whenever I try to assemble some code that accesses the tos.l file it loads and when it comes to the GEM_INIT command I get box telling me that everything is messed up????? I reassembled the tos.l file, and got no difference. Can anyone help me out, I need my assembler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 later Barry
federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) (03/06/88)
In article <898@aucs.UUCP> 870646c@aucs.UUCP (barry comer) writes: >Hi all, well Atari finally sent me my blitter chip(thank you ATARI), [...] Does this mean that the blitters are finally out? My Mega is still waiting for one. Would anybody from Atari comment on this and, if they are out, tell me whether they are being distributed in Europe too.? -- Federico Heinz BIX: fheinz | Beusselstr. 21 UUCP: ...!unido!tub!actisb!federico | 1000 Berlin 21 Tel: (030) 396 77 92 | F.R. Germany.
wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) (03/07/88)
In article <898@aucs.UUCP>, 870646c@aucs.UUCP (barry comer) writes:
# Hi all, well Atari finally sent me my blitter chip(thank you ATARI), but there
# seems to be a problem with Assempro now. Whenever I try to assemble some
# code that accesses the tos.l file it loads and when it comes to the GEM_INIT
# command I get box telling me that everything is messed up?????
# I reassembled the tos.l file, and got no difference. Can anyone help me out,
# I need my assembler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
# later
# Barry
Have you tried turning off the blitter from the desktop? Most ST
wordprocessors crash when the blitter is turned on, run OK with it
turned off.
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wes@obie.UUCP writes: > >Have you tried turning off the blitter from the desktop? Most ST >wordprocessors crash when the blitter is turned on, run OK with it >turned off. > Do you have experience with this or you just heard from somewhere? I haven't encountered any crashes with BliTTER on with all kind of programs (not just word processor) except few games (not crash but just too fast to play). Don't spread rumors unless you know what you talk about. /* flame off */ Jinfu Chen (has BLiTTER since last Nov.)
dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) (03/11/88)
In article <3784@cup.portal.com> Jinfu@cup.portal.com writes: >wes@obie.UUCP writes: >> >>Have you tried turning off the blitter from the desktop? Most ST >>wordprocessors crash when the blitter is turned on, run OK with it >>turned off. >> >Do you have experience with this or you just heard from somewhere? I >haven't encountered any crashes with BliTTER on with all kind of programs >(not just word processor) except few games (not crash but just too fast >to play). > >Don't spread rumors unless you know what you talk about. > >/* flame off */ > > >Jinfu Chen (has BLiTTER since last Nov.) There is a problem with a bunch of programs that did not provide the entire required global arrays for the VDI. With the old line-A VDI stuff, much of these arrays were left unused. With the blitter, much more of these array space is used. Also, there are several differences in UNDOCUMENTED AES calls. Several applications used a function to return information about the menu/alert buffer (size and address) which stopped working in the blitter ROMs. When my application broke on the new ROMs, I called Atari, and they told me that this particular call was from an early version of GEM, and was never documented or supported on the ST. In this case, they were right. The Sybex GEM programming book lists this function, but the DRI and Abucus docs do not. Some word processors and games used undocumented locations in low memory which were used by the old ROMs to hold pointers to routines and buffers, and many of these have moved in the new ROMs. A few programs (mostly games) put buffers at the top of RAM, above the screen memory, and would occassionally fetch a word or byte from the location one past the top of memory. On a machine with < 4 meg. of RAM, this is not a problem. The MMU (or is it the GLUE) generates a buss error when a user-mode program accesses in the range above 4meg and below the ROM. Not the fault of the Blitter or the new ROMs at all. Lots and lots of programs do not follow the rules, and do not work on the Mega. The above is from direct experience. I develop products that are sold for the ST, and sell well. I don't just fiddle around. I do this full time! Daniel A. Glasser Disclaimer: Mark Williams Co. I speak for myself, nobody 1430 W. Wrightwood Ave. at MWC has approved what I Chicago, IL 60614 post, including myself. -- Daniel A. Glasser dag@chinet.UUCP One of those things that goes "BUMP!!! (ouch!)" in the night. ...!att-ih!chinet!dag | ...!ihnp4!mwc!dag | ...!ihnp4!mwc!gorgon!dag