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#Vmorph help

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#34890From: Bob O'DellMay 15, 1993 7:19 PM

VRLI: When I open the options menu and click on tree or palette functions, the program blows up and says that there is a runtime error. Other times, I'll just being working with it when out of the blue the program will blow up and say a runtime error has occurred. HELP?!?!? P.S.-I do have both HIMEM and EMM386 working ++ I'm using a 386, 8MB RAM, and DOS 5.0 ++ This is Steve O'Dell, not Bob O'Dell

#34908From: Clint Woeltjen@VRLIMay 15, 1993 11:02 PM

Steve: I will pass this along to Jean, who wrote VistaMorph and see what he has to say. I haven't been able to play with VistaMorph myself due to very limited available disk space, so I can only act as a courier. I will get back to you when I have a response. Clint <VRLI>

#34913From: John HinkleyMay 16, 1993 4:07 AM

Steve, Although you have EMM386 set up, it sounds like you may not have enough memory allocated to it. I don't know how much VMORPH actually needs but I just tried limiting it to 256K and it showed the same symptoms you described. You can use the MEM command from DOS: if the EMS line says less than a meg try increasing it in your CONFIG.SYS file. Change something like: DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE 256 RAM to DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE 1024 RAM or DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM I'm pretty sure DOS5 will "share" EMS memory so that it's available as XMS or DPMI memory if it's not actively in use as EMS. In other words you will still have all of it available for Vistapro or Windows etc. John.

#34915From: Clint Woeltjen@VRLIMay 16, 1993 6:21 AM

John: Thanks for the info. I am still basically lost when it comes to figuring out memory management on the PC. <sigh> Clint <VRLI>

#34928From: Bob O'DellMay 16, 1993 10:12 AM

Clint, Thanks for passing my letter to John, I now have Vistamorph fully operational. Steve O'Dell

#34988From: Clint Woeltjen@VRLIMay 17, 1993 12:34 AM

Bob: Actually, I was passing it to Jean Ames, who wrote VistaMorph. John Hinkley, author of VistaPro keeps a close eye out in this forum and also noticed your message and gave you the solution. I'll be glad to take credit, but really it was John's doing. <grin> Clint <VRLI>

#34927From: Bob O'DellMay 16, 1993 10:11 AM

John, Thanks alot!! Vistamorph works fine now that I've added DEVICE=C:\SYSTEM\DOS\EMM386.EXE 1024 RAM to my CONFIG.SYS.

#34986From: John HinkleyMay 17, 1993 12:20 AM

Bob, I'm glad you got VMORPH working; and thanks for letting me know what worked. Now we know what to tell the next person. John.