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- From: johnt4@iceonline.com (John Torset)
- Subject: Re: Using up all Chip RAM.
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- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 07:48:37 GMT
-
- Matt Harrell (mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com) wrote:
- : I have been running AMosaic since I upgraded my A1200 with an
- : accelerator card. I think that I have everything working now, but
- : AMosaic seems to be a serious hog with Chip RAM. I constantly run out
- : of Chip RAM when running it. Is it normal to run out of Chip RAM so
- : easily, or is this a "feature" of AMosaic? I have great difficulties
- : with external viewers running out of RAM. This just doesn't make
- : sense to me. I am running a 7-bit (128 color), 800x600 Workbench, and
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Why use a 7-bitplane Workbench. Get MagicWB2.0 and do nicely with 3- or 4-
- bitplanes depending on if you want to use MagicCopper or not. It looks
- realy nice. ;) You will save about 350 to 550 Kb of Chipram depending on your
- choice. (Compared to 1.3 Mb)
-
- One of the reasons that Amosaic use an awefull amount of Chipram is because it
- use MUI for it's GUI. Try Aweb 1.0 (no MUI), It's on Aminet and are just
- as good as AMosaic, and thankfully useing a lot less Chipram.
-
- I hope that will help.
-
- : I run AMosaic on the Workbench screen (although, I've also tried it on
- : it's own screen). When I start AMosaic, I have about 1.3MB of Chip
- : RAM left. I don't have problems runing out of Chip RAM with any other
- : programs that I've noticed. I have tried IBrowse, but it crashes so I
- : use Mosaic until the "real" IBrowse is finished (and hopefully quite
- : stable).
-
-
- John Torset
-
-