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- From: alan@rangercom.com (Alan James)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HTML viewer problems with 16 colour screens.
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 10:21:01 GMT
- Organization: Ranger Computers Ltd.
- Message-ID: <828523283.22552@ranger.demon.co.uk>
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- kgroombr@hereford.ampr.org (Kenton Groombridge) wrote:
-
- >After using AWeb for a few days now, I discovered something wierd with my
- >system. I found that when using AWeb on it's own 16 colour screen, it
- >would hang, TCP/IP would stop working (I couldn't ping anybody including
- >myself), and the modem would drop the connection. At first I thought
- >this was a problem with AWeb, but when I ran AMosaic on my Workbench
- >screen with 16 colours, it did exactly the same thing. I would have
- >checked this with IBrowse, but since it crashed so often, I deleted it.
-
- >I spent all day trying different things to determine what was causing
- >this problem. This is what I found out. All screen that were used
- >were PAL hires laced screens.
-
- It might be something to do with a lack of dma bandwidth slowing down
- your system.
-
- Which chipset do you have ? OCS ? ECS ?
-
- I have an ECS A500 with an 020. I run Aweb on a 16 colour NTSC screen
- (cos its a bit faster than PAL) and it works fine.
- Although my serial port speed is set only to 38400.
-
- Perhaps you asking too much of you old hardware.
-
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