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Title: DPaint III on A1000 KS 1.3?
Post by: blakespot on July 12, 2010, 04:11:07 AM

I am running an Amiga 1000 w/ KS 1.3 and DPaint III seems to guru on my pretty shortly after I load, just messing around with it.  Should it run stably?

Thanks.



bp

Title: Re: DPaint III on A1000 KS 1.3?
Post by: AmigaHeretic on July 12, 2010, 04:21:07 AM

I should think so.  I  how much ram do you have?

Only experience I can really add is that I used DPaint IV on my A1000 KS1.3 for a long time.  Never had any problems.  I'm sure thousands used DPaint III on A1000 back in the day though, so it should be fine.  You don't notice the problem with any other software?

Title: Re: DPaint III on A1000 KS 1.3?
Post by: blakespot on July 12, 2010, 03:46:23 PM

I've got 512K CHIP RAM and 2MB FAST RAM on a Microbotics StarBoard II.  

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/3735654223/in/set-72157621596272210/

I'm running KS / WB 1.3.  Odd, just pretty soon after it loads, I'll be doing this or that and I get a Guru.

I'd rather use DP3 than DP4, just as I prefer the interface and can't really take advantage of some of the features of DP4 on this A1000.

Odd.

Title: Re: DPaint III on A1000 KS 1.3?
Post by: save2600 on July 12, 2010, 04:33:28 PM

Yeah, you shouldn't be experiencing any problems with those specs. Few things I can think of:

a) the disk you're loading from, is it okay? If you're loading images from another floppy, is it a known good floppy? Not a high density disk formatted to be low?

b) Pal ground mods on the daughterboard... has that been performed? That external 2MB box of yours is pretty heavy duty and not in an efficient way.

c) Expansion port connector on the A1000 real clean?

d) Female connector on your RAM expansion clean and okay?

e) bad 256k Chip RAM (extremely unlikely)

f) bad RAM in your external box (a lot more likely than a bad 1050), but try running DPaint III with only 512k and see if it Guru's right away. I don't remember how much that program requires, but if it'll load your image (hopefully a small one) up fine and doesn't crash - then you know you have RAM issues in that external box of yours. If so, hopefully they're socketed.

g) do you have an AdSpeed chip or some other accelerator in your A1000? If so, try disabling it.

Title: Re: DPaint III on A1000 KS 1.3?
Post by: CLS2086 on July 12, 2010, 09:24:51 PM

no 68010 inside ?