#Trying to use DPaintIV
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Just picked up an Amiga with hard drive and 2 floppies – guess I am the thrid
generation owner. It came with a lot of software, but at this time, I really
need to access DPaintIV.
I have managed to get DPaintIII booted up from floppy and added to hard drive,
and everything seems to work.
However, when I try to do the same thing with DPaintIV, I end up with
everything intact . . . except Animation – it is not even available to me on
menu bar. Is there a toggle switch that I don't know about? Unfortunately, I
have all the documentation for DPaintIII, but only the disk could be located on
the DPaintIV. It is the original disk, but former owner could not locate
manual.
Anyone out there have any suggestions?
Thanks for your help.
Ted Bach
The main thing to suspect is insufficient RAM, that ever needed but elusive
commodity… I believe that if you are running with 1/2 meg or even one meg of
ram, you will not be able to access the more ram-intensive features of
DPaintIV.
Sean Hannon
Ad Rats – Stamford, CT
Thanks for your prompt reply
What is even more interesting to me is that if I boot the computer with the
DPaintIV disk in DF0 . . . everything works fine (although I have already run
into some "out of memory" messages while trying to put together even fairly
simple animations). I used DPaint Installation utility to install on my hard
drive (which is partitioned, but the way, into DH1 and DH0). If I double click
DPaintIV icon, it opens without animation capabilities. If, however, the DPaint
floppy is in either drive, the animation is enabled. Seems as though just
before DPaint opens, the floppy sends a little string of information to the
computer.
Thanks again for your help – if you have any ideas . . . please let me know.
Ted
Perhaps when you boot off of the DPaint IV floppy, your startup-sequence gets
you up an running with a minimum of RAM overhead. Check your startup-sequence
and User-startup on your harddrive for additional programs that are launched
and running in the background. That could be the difference in your not
getting enough ram for DPaint's animation needs. Be careful not to tinker with
stuff in startup-sequence unless you absolutely know what you're looking at.
The stuff in User-startup is safer to play with.
Sean Hannon
Ad Rats – Stamford, CT