CompuServe Messages

Gary, I hate to intrude on your weekend with these questions, but I just got my Spectrum board up and running friday evening, and GVP tech support won't be back until monday morning (this of course assumes that you will be logging on this weekend)… I think I have a busted Buster problem. I found that I could not get my 2MB Spectrum board to display an 800x600x24 screen from my A3000/25 (12 MB fast RAM) onto my A1950 monitor! I also had problems with an 800x600x8 WB clone – it took over two minutes to redraw a screen with a few windows! I opened up my A3000 and switched the jumper to force it to Zorro II mode. The good news is that I am now able to bring up an 800x600x24 board, the bad news is that the screen flickers significantly! Another bit of bad news is that the EGS_Workbench at 8 bits deep is FAR TOO SLOW for me, to be useful to me (although the 800x600x3 is very nice, and I will be "test driving" the 1024×768 mode, which should be nice!). I seem to have a translucent pointer also (any idea why that seems to be happening?). Using left-Amiga m to shuffle thru both EGS AND native Amiga screens is a nice programming touch. It's a shame that the screen flipping gadgets will only work to flip EITHER native Amiga screens or EGS screens, but not both. I used to use my three button's middle button to flip thru all my screens – it would be nice if this feature were available <hint><hint>. BTW, are there any files/docs available for users to write EGS compliant code?????? I never realized how much I'd miss PowerSnap, but obviously it won't work on a non-native screen (perhaps another utility program you might consider for EGS). I'd really like to know if any of my problems are related to my busted Buster problems (what exactly are the signs and symptoms of EGS' DMA problems with a busted A3000????). Is it my monitor, my CPU, my humidity, my barometric pressure??? Is there any way to speed up that workbench clone so that I can have the 256 colors I thought I'd have??? Will the 800x600x24 screen still flicker as much if I find and replace my olde Buster with revision 11 (that's the latest one, right?) I'd appreciate any help with these problems. I still have a lot to look at with this package. Not to mention the monitor setting adjustments mentioned at the back of the docs. BTW, when/if I update to the latest Buster, I htink I'm gonna put in that last 4MB ZIP (this thing loves fast ram)! Spectrum is an intriguing graphics board! Definitely a product where reading the docs is recommended! // ** Commodore ** \X/ -The Bosnia of Computer Companies- -RSL-