#Centurion
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I spent about 3 hours playing with Lou Wallace's Centurion newspaper
(written with AmigaVision). I've got a 3M 2000 with a 512k agnus. This
program will not run as is on this setup — not enough chip mem. After
getting rid of the preloaded graphics, closing workbench, and running the
program external to AmigaVision, I got it to work. If you've had problems
running it but have at least 3M of memory, you _can_ do it. While you're
playing with it you can't help to learn more about AmigaVision.
Steve sorry about the difficulty you had…the original message was lost
(as was the upload itself) and was generously restored by one of the
sysops. I don't remember if I mentioned in the original message that
Centurion makes heavy use of chip mem, but as you discovered, it does.
Deleting the resource icons do help, as does clocing workbench. Anoter
trick for this, or any graphic heavy AV application, is to turn off double
buffering. This will degrade the display to some extent, but can save you a
lot of chip memory. Another technique is to set the LMEM flag on AV's icon
in the tooltypes field. Set options = LMEM to force AV to use less memory.
Also, don't start it with an interlaced display. CLI users can save a *LOT*
of memory. AV uses more RAM if started from Workbench than CLI. SO starting
an application from CLI results in a very large RAM savings. Try this: AV m
aCenturion.AVf
Hope this helps.
-Lou
Lou,
I did everything you suggested except run it from the CLI. I wasn't
complaining, just wanted to relate my experience in running the program in
a 512k agnus environment. In specific areas, I learned more about
AmigaVision by looking at your code than I did from the manual.
-sja
I didn't think you were complaining Steve! 😀 Try the CLI approach, it does
save a bit of ram.. and I'm glad the program helped you learn more about
AV…its a great package. I plan on uploading some others pretty soon. -Lou
Lou,
Great! Looking forward to 'em.