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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: a1200 on May 14, 2007, 10:01:44 PM

Title: Wordworth and Blizzard 1200/4
Post by: a1200 on May 14, 2007, 10:01:44 PM

OK I don't normally post the same thread on another site, I believe that each site is worthy of its own content. But this problem is bugging me so much I want everyone to help. Here goes:

OK we are going to solve this! Ready?

Let me start by saying my Blizzard 1200/4 is the most stable, reliable upgrade I have ever had since using Amiga. It simply does not crash, freeze or any such antics.

For those not familiar with the board it is a surface mount 4MB board, real time clock and has an FPU socket, which my board is occupied with a 33MHz 68882 with corresponding crystal.

Right, I had a problem where I THOUGHT that Wordworth V5 was corrupt or something see here:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23147&forum=27

OK I thought WW4 was a workaround (assuming it would work, being part of the magic pack). It did not.

Symptoms: Intellifonts and clipart do not appear or fonts appear as lines or black gibberish.

So determined it was a software issue, and I wanted to run Wordworth so I formatted both partitions of my hard drive. Now all that is on DH0: is Workbench 3.1 and all that is on DH1: is Wordworth 4SE (Magic Pack version).

The problem STILL happened until I removed my RAM board and the problem then went away.

My question: What the *!@$ is the problem?

I like running a classic machine, but 2MB RAM is too little. I will buy a different RAM board if I need to but there must be an answer to this. Another word processor is another workaround but I have been using Wordworth for years on other Amigas and this SHOULD work!!

Please help.

Title: Re: Wordworth and Blizzard 1200/4
Post by: A4000_Mad on May 14, 2007, 10:16:42 PM

It will be a miracle if this helps, but when I had display problems with Wordworth I put brackets around PICASSO=TRUE here:-

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/WW.png)


Or I may have removed them :-D

A4000 Mad

Title: Re: Wordworth and Blizzard 1200/4
Post by: twizzle on May 14, 2007, 10:24:03 PM

mmmm just a stupid answer but you did fixfonts in sys drawer ??

Title: Re: Wordworth and Blizzard 1200/4
Post by: a1200 on May 14, 2007, 10:34:03 PM

@A4000_Mad

There was brackets around the PICASSO=TRUE so I removed them. No luck.

I have discovered there are more colours automatically when the RAM card is in, so I messed with screenmodes, but to no avail.

Title: Re: Wordworth and Blizzard 1200/4
Post by: a1200 on May 14, 2007, 10:35:25 PM

@ twizzle

Tried that, no luck and works fine without RAM card.

Title: Re: Wordworth and Blizzard 1200/4
Post by: a1200 on May 14, 2007, 10:46:20 PM

Interesting chat on IRC:

http://amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=818&forum=9

Title: Re: Wordworth and Blizzard 1200/4
Post by: a1200 on May 20, 2007, 03:52:49 PM

Resolved: I bought a Blizzard 1220/4!