peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) (06/29/91)
In article <1991Jun29.005127.17803@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: > I think the Amiga should be verbose about it's startup self tests. Sure > there are the screen colors, but some text that exclaims: > "Testing CPU...Custom Chips...Chip RAM...Expansion devices...OK" > would give me a warm fuzzy feeling, even if I didn't know what chip > RAM was. (Commodore: consider this a request for KS 2.1, OK?) YES! And get rid of the "cute" GURU message. I don't mean delete it, but replace it with something like: +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Non-recoverable error: Memory Corruption Detected | | | | The Amiga operating system has detected a problem: some software you | | are using appears to have accidentally damaged system data structures | | and it is not safe to continue running it. Please hit the left mouse | | button to reboot. For diagnostic purposes, if this problem persists, | | please make a note of the following code number: 81000005.007E6759 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ At least put a description of the screen colors in "Using the System Software"! -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"