mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore) (06/23/91)
Well the subject sez it all, I finally got Awesome to work on my A500. A couple of months ago I was telling everyone on the net how I could not get Awesome to work because it would ask for Disk 2 even when Disk 2 was in the drive. Well, I purchased it again for $20 and I fired it up and the same thing happened. So I shifted the disks around, putting disk 2 in my df1: and disk 3: in my df0:. It worked!....for a stage, then it froze up again. So I consulted the (worthless) manual and I came across a blurb saying that in 1-plus-meg Amigas, the program could only use the bottom 512K for the sound and grafix, and would use the upper 512K for a Ram Disk. Ram Disk? Immediately, I thought of the A501. Hmmm, let's see what happenz when we remove the A501! So I pried open my trusty little 500 and carefully pulled the memory expansion box from its slot, and put it in a safe place (i.e. my desk.) Then I replugged the computer and fired up Awesome again. It worked without a hitch. Now my drives still gronk a lot, and there's more time to wait during disk loads, but it ain't like it'll kill you or anything. See, the program de- termines whether you have only 512K or 1MB or more in your Amiga, and it loads the data differently. I guess the sickeningly horrid copy protection does not agree with my df0: when my computer has 1MB, but seeing that it has to load the data differently in 512K mode, it doesn't have a problem. So there'z a hintt: If you have problems running Awesome on the A500, remove your A501. If that doesn't work, you're jacked. Seeyaz! **********************Malcolm "The Capital MD" Moore************************** * CHICAGO BULLS * Microcomputer & Workstation * * * -- * Networks Center * Jackin For Beats * * NBA * would have to PAY me * IN 1991 * * CHAMPZ! * to express any kind of an * * * * opinion in their behalf. * (Empty Space Here * * Yall DESERVED IT! * * * ***************************mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu******************************