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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Octamed Pro 3.0 on 3000
- Keywords: OctaMED
- Message-ID: <42882@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 23:11:24 GMT
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- 'Lo all. I recently acquired a new 3000, and had a question about the
- coverdisk version of OctaMED Pro. On my 2000/2.1 system, OctaMED will load the
- poewrpacked GFX files it needs perfectly every time. I just have to make sure
- that the GFX files are in the proper directory. I did the exact same
- installation on my 3000, but now the program refuses to load these files. It
- pops up with a flashing box doodad that says "Can't load OCTAmed.gfx1".So I
- made a second batch of gfx files in the same directory named OctaMED.gfxn,
- thinking that the deafult name "CUamiga.gfxn" (where n is # of gfx file) was
- wrong somehow. Needless to say, the computer still didn't load them. I
- verified that it wasn't working by putting in the original disk and trying to
- run Omed from there. I got the same result on the 3000 again, but when I popped
- the disk out and loaded it on the 2000, it worked.
- I got Omed to run on the 3000 by booting off of the original disk and
- not loading Workbench from the HD. Curiously, THEN the octamed copy on my hard
- drive will run, but only after I boot off of the CUamiga 36 coverdisk.
- Possible problems: The 3000 only has (had) 2 megs of ram. One meg was
- moved over to the fast ram slots and one was in the chip ram slots. The fast
- ram was the same type as the chip ram (120 nanosecond) so therefore programs
- like SysInfo gave me a speed comparison of 2.something comapred to a stock
- 2000 and only .3 (1/3 the speed) of a 3000/25 (mine) with 80
- nanosecond 32-bit RAM. Thus, the 3000 was running fast but not full speed, and
- the memory was getting eaten up badly by all the utils I was running. When I
- tried to run Omed off the HD (boot from HD here) I had only about 50K of fast
- and 900K of chip. I'm thinking maybe this RAM setup is messing up Omed in some
- way. (Med 3.22, whihc has a similar .gfx file setup, works fine, however...)
- The 2000 has 1meg chip and 2meg 16-bit fast RAM, yet I have never had a
- problem running Omed under any conditions (even lowlow memory, like 300K chip
- and 400K fast).
- I recently (yesterday) dumped the 3000 off at the local dealer for an
- installation of 4 megs of 32bit fast ram, so maybe this will solve my problem.
- For the sake of argument, if it doesn't, does anyone have any suggestions as
- to what's causing this, or had a similar experience themselves?
- Reply here or E-mail. Thanks all.
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- ...nverenin@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
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