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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Foreground task always highest priority?
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 17:27:38
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- Ish Hallin (rbaron@burner.com) wrote:
- : On Sun 4-Feb-1996 1:01a, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
- :
- : MS> Get yourself Executive from AmiNet, it does this and more.
- :
- : Arrgh, I just got Executive, installed it, it works great, except for one
- : problem: when it's running, SmartPlay won't play MODs. It just loads them,
- : and says 'waiting'. I think it flushes them from memory as well, as if you
- : hit 'play' it just reloads and waits some more, and you can never see the
- : samples in memory. I can't get it working despite my settings..although
- : DasModPlay works fine.
-
- SmartPlay doesn't seem to be very smart when it comes to allocating timers. It
- is trying to allocate a CIA A or B timer for its own use, but Executive has
- already used one of them. Set Executive to use timer.device instead and all
- should be fine.
-
- e.g. in Startup-Sequence
- Run >NIL: <NIL: TOOLS:System/Executive/Executive TIMER=DEVICE
-
- (BTW, the MED player in DeliTracker shows (or showed; it may have been updated
- by now) even worse behaviour than this. If it fails to allocate CIA timer B,
- it crashes the machine...)
-
- -- Mat.
-