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#CloudsAGA on ECS?

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#39577From: Ron LegroMar 5, 1994 8:03 PM
Has anyone else with an ECS machine gotten CloudsAGA (in the libs here as Clouds.lha) to work? The docs say it will run in 32-color mode on an ECS machine, but when I fire it up it merely gives me a "can't open screen" message. I've plenty of chip RAM, so that can't be it. The AmigaGuide help file seems goofed up, too — too-wide margins so you have to scroll a lot horizontally.
#39587From: Jim Shaffer Jr.Mar 5, 1994 11:06 PM
I have the same problem on my 3000. I tried looking at the source but since I don't do M2 and it was late at night 🙂 I didn't get anywhere. As for the AmigaGuide file, I understand that Commodore is *partially* to blame. I've been told that MultiView (the 3.0 equivalent of AG) wraps lines automatically. Apparently there are programmers that don't know about the inferior AG that Commodore has belatedly released to us lowly 2.1 users, but I can't imagine why they'd make such a radical change. (OK, maybe I can imagine… By the time you've got all your links and whatnot in, your text is already wider than 80 columns even if only 80 columns are going to be displayed, so I suppose they decided to make it easier on the programmers.)