cbz@mhuxu.UUCP (03/04/87)
As usual, I only post something when I have a problem. Anyway, here goes. I recently installed the TOS ROM chips in my 520ST and then set up a 100k "eternal" RAMdisk. Everything was fine until I tried to run the drawing program, NEO-CHROME. An alert box appeared and said "The computer does not have enough memory for the application you are trying to run". This is strange because NEO.PRG is only a 57k program and my Free RAM checker desk accessory tells me I have almost 200kbytes free. Besides that, a much larger program such as STBASIC (140k) runs just fine. Has anyone else had this problem? Did I screw something up when installing the ROMs? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. P.S. When I reduce the RAMdisk to 80k, NEO.PRG runs, but is buggy. Craig Ziemer at AT&T-BL
dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) (03/06/87)
> This > is strange because NEO.PRG is only a 57k program and my Free RAM checker > desk accessory tells me I have almost 200kbytes free. Besides that, a much > larger program such as STBASIC (140k) runs just fine. Has anyone else > had this problem? Did I screw something up when installing the ROMs? Any > help would be GREATLY appreciated. The size of a program on disk has little to do with the extra storage the program may require when it is run. (You could easily write a 1K program that needed 1 meg to run). Neochrome simply needs a lot of memory for screen and cut buffers. You did NOT screw anything up installing the ROMs. -- -Landon Dyer, Atari Corp. {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer The views expressed here do not not necessarily reflect those of Atari Corp. Segments are for worms.
leavens@atari.UUCP (Alex Leavens) (03/06/87)
> ...Eternal ramdisc, and NEO doesnt' run. > P.S. When I reduce the RAMdisk to 80k, NEO.PRG runs, but is buggy. A number of the ramdiscs on the market chew up memory in odd ways, especially the ones that are supposed to survive reset. I'd try a different eternal ramdisc, and see if that fixes the problem. --alex @ Atari BIX: alexl. GEnie: ALEXLEAVENS AtariCorp: 408-745-2006