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- From: fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris)
- Subject: Re: I hate AMOS apps
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- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 18:36:26 GMT
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- In article <909.6606T1103T2868@mindlink.bc.ca>,
- Steve_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Wong) writes:
- >WHY do AMOS applications access the hard drive so frequently????
-
- I wasn't aware they did.
-
- >I've had many AMOS applications which cause the hard drive to chirp (light
- >blinks on and off about every 1 or 2 seconds) throughout the time the
- >application is running. WHAT is it doing to my system or WHY is it doing
- >this?? As far as I know, there shouldn't be any reason to be reading the HD
- >that frequently -- this even happens if I decompress the file to RAM: and run
- >it from there.
-
- AMOS apps do not use operating system I/O in the most part. You will
- probably have notice how the screens don't quite act like normal
- Intuition screens and the requesters etc. aren't anything like the
- AmigaOS ones.
-
- It's quite likely that in patching into the OS like this AMOS is
- infact causing problems with your HD. I know that after AGA
- AMOS had a lot of problems remaining compatable with the OS -
- in particular commodities like screen savers etc.
-
- My advice is don't use AMOS apps. Infact my advice is avoid AMOS
- all together. It's an outdated program now, and if you really want
- to program in a power BASIC then use Blitz instead. Blitz isn't
- perfect - but it's a damb sight better than AMOS.
-
- >I've had several HD invalidations thanks to this (esp with lame AMOS programs
- >not allowing you to quit from them), and I find it very frustrating. I don't
- >plan to use AMOS apps again...
-
- I think this may be the only solution.
-
- >Reminds me of some older games which keep the floppy drive spinning.
-
- Actually, they didn't keep it spinning as much as they didn't
- actually know how to switch it off. The OS keeps the drives
- spinning for a few seconds after each access just incase another
- disk access follows shortly (which it often does). After a few
- seconds of inactivity it times out - and stops the motor.
- But if a game shuts down the OS immediately after the it loads
- then the OS never gets a chance to time out and shut the
- drive down - thus it continues to spin!!
-
- >Explanations?
- >
- >- Steve.
- >
- -FISH- ><>
-
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