[comp.sys.apple2] DeluxePaint and 5.04

mcgurrin@MWUNIX.MITRE.ORG (01/09/91)

I've been a happy and satisfied user of DeluxePaint II ever since it came out
(once I put in the patch to let it be run off of a hard disk without a key
disk).  Except for an occassional glitch, this version ran fine up through
GS OS 5.0.2, but both the patched version and the original fail to run under
5.0.4.  Does anyone know of a fix for this?

jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) (01/09/91)

In article <9101081642.AA15527@mwunix.mitre.org> mcgurrin@MWUNIX.MITRE.ORG writes:
>I've been a happy and satisfied user of DeluxePaint II ever since it came out
>(once I put in the patch to let it be run off of a hard disk without a key
>disk).  Except for an occassional glitch, this version ran fine up through
>GS OS 5.0.2, but both the patched version and the original fail to run under
>5.0.4.  Does anyone know of a fix for this?

I would suggest running your copy of DeluxePaint through COMPACT and EXPRESS,
two APW utilties that will make your life wonderful.  After I did that,
DeluxePaint load time went from 50 seconds to 8 seconds (off of floppy!).
It also worked- i.e., it had crashed under 5.0.3 when I ran it, but after
I COMPACT/EXPRESSED it, it worked great.

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MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET (01/09/91)

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On Tue, 8 Jan 91 19:47:56 GMT Desdinova said:
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>I would suggest running your copy of DeluxePaint through COMPACT and EXPRESS,
>two APW utilties that will make your life wonderful.  After I did that,
>DeluxePaint load time went from 50 seconds to 8 seconds (off of floppy!).
>It also worked- i.e., it had crashed under 5.0.3 when I ran it, but after
>I COMPACT/EXPRESSED it, it worked great.

This sounds GREAT!  Did these utilities come with the original version of
ORCA/M?  I have that version, (1.1b I think) but I can't find those files and
I can't find anything about them in the back of the manual, but I do remember
something about that.

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throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop) (01/09/91)

delaneyg@wnre.aecl.ca ("H. Grant Delaney") writes:

>Gee mine works fine with 5.04 as well but I just tried the compact and express
>That's a great Idea.  I also tried it on my deprotected copy of PaintWorks Gold
>it cut the load time almost in half and the size by a third.  Now what other
>older programs can we impove in this way.

I can't get Paintworks Gold (1.5) to work with System 5.0.4 at all - it
always crashes at the title screen.  I've tried purging memory but that
doesn't help (purge w/ the program that comes w/ SHRConvert).  I don't have
the APW interfaces so I can't do it that way.  Any suggestions?

Henry


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