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- From: James C C Darling <J.Darling@surrey.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: What does a YELLOW screen crash indicate? :?(
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 11:33:52 +0100
- Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
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- > Edith D Goldstein wrote:
- > >
- > > I was <right-Amiga><M> toggling between Phasar and WW and my screen turned
- > > a bright yellow and I had to reboot.
- > >
- > > What does that color indicate? When you click on the Phasar screen, it
- > > flashes yellow (the complement of the usual purple default screen).
- > >
- I think yellow means that the CPU trapped a software error before the OS got a
- chance to. Nothing to worry about, just a downside of crap programming and
- AmigaOS lack of memory protection :(
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