CompuServe Messages

Vic, hiya pal!! Long time no see!! Even if the user had plugged more memory into the machine, all our code requires CHIP memory, and very very little of it could sit in FAST memory, so we didn't bother checking for any extra available memory. I agree with your sentiments, however… and our next program will probably system friendlier (no guarantees, tho!). For performance code, I personally feel that ANYTHING, and EVERYTHING is acceptable to get the hardware running as fast as it possibly can. That includes trashing the OS, as long as the computer itself is not damaged in any way…… and since we dont instruct any Robot Arms to HIT the computer, we assumed things would be okay after a REBOOT. We considered adding a menu option 'R" to reboot the machine, but since the user can do this quicker, and more thoroughly with CTRL-Amiga-Amiga we decided this was unnecessary and overcomplicated. How's MetaScope these days? I can't remember how the saying goes, but I think its "Copying is the best form of flattery"….. or something like that. Anyhow, we wrote an in-house remote Amiga monitor, such that one Amiga remote controls (and debugs) another TARGET Amiga. We styled our user interface on yours, since it was the cutest and friendliest we had seen! (congrats!) Ours is not a commercial product, so don't be disturbed or start talking to your lawyer (grin!) Its simply for our own use. — Jez.