NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/13198

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From: [e-mail] (Daniel Aylward)
Subject: More TT030 help...
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:26:09 GMT
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I just bought an 8 meg TT.  I have a hundred zillion questions, but I'll
start off with 2...

1)  How do you use the Fast RAM?  All memory tests show I only have 4,
which I can understand, but when I run Calamus and load all my 130 fonts
it says I'm out of memory (I know that's only 4 megs because I could load
most of my fonts on my 4 meg Mega STe).  Do I have to set a bit on the
programs I want to make use of Fast RAM?  How do I do that?

2)  Screen trouble(?).  My TT Medium res screen is supposed to be 640X400
16 colors, right?  Well...  mine's 640X480!  Don't ask me how!  No
graphics board; the VME slot is empty.  I have about an inch of extra
space at the bottom of my screen.  I'm not complaining..., except that the
desktop is shifted/squished a bit to the left of the white illuminated
area, making things look *slightly* skinnier.  (BTW that's NOT the source
of the extra room at the bottom of the screen; there are actually MORE
pixels!  The 640X480 only happens in TT Medium, but the shift is there in
all resolutions.)  Will a graphics board help this?  Are there any halfway
decent VME graphics boards that are less than Crazy Dots?

Thanks...

Dan Aylward
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