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- From: CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk (C.D.Latham)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: WARNING! Tracker player disaster with RISC OS 3.1
- Message-ID: <BzAtxr.5IK@cen.ex.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 11:44:14 GMT
- References: <Bz3Ft7.KtB@cen.ex.ac.uk> <724102126snx@cryton.demon.co.uk>
- <920214090227@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>
- Sender: CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk
- Organization: Computer Unit. - University of Exeter. UK
- Lines: 28
- In-Reply-To: Phil Emery's message of 14 Dec 92 09:02:27 GMT
-
- In article <920214090227@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> Phil Emery writes:
- >>In article <Bz3Ft7.KtB@cen.ex.ac.uk> CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
- >>
- >>!Protracker gives all sorts of horrible problems on an A5000 with
- >>RISC OS 3.1
- >
- >I often run ProTracker on an A410/1 with RO3.1 with no problems.
- >!STracker is also OK, except for the VU meter which kills everything.
-
- Just a note to confirm the exact fatal combination: A5000, 4 Mbyte
- RAM, 120 Mbyte IDE disc, RISC OS 3.1, Acorn Ethernet III & Intelligent
- Interfaces IEEE488 interface cards. The ethernet card used the Acorn
- TCP/IP suite and the IEEE488 card was not active. The system failed
- with catastrophic internal errors whenever !Protracker was used to
- play a tune. Even power off/on reset would not get the system working
- properly again - the ethernet interface refused to go `up' (*IFConfig
- failed) and opening any filer window caused the machine to crash with
- more fatal internal errors.
-
- The fault was reproducable and only restoring the machine to the
- `factory' settings got it going again.
-
- DO NOT USE PROTRACKER WITH THE ABOVE COMBINATIONS - IT IS FATAL!
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-
- (That is not overstating it either!)
-
- --Christopher.
-