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C. How to make the Amiga more stable

Do your programs crash with a Guru 4 (Instruction error) or $1000005 (Memory corrupt) ab?

The reason could be a too small stack. Every System has a different stack usage, because different programs run in the background, and change system-routines.

If several programs change the same system-routines, this may result in an stack overflow

which can destroy the free-memory-list,
or the return address of a subroutine is gone after a task-switch,
or even other programs are changed accidently (Enforcer/CyberGuard-Hit).

Even if only one program changes a system-routine and doesn't use stack itself, there are at least 4 Bytes used.

Luckily there is StackAttack, Which gives almost every program a little more stack.

example installation in the `s:Startup-Sequence':

StackAttack ADDSTACK=512

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