<>@7 X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/ *4@5 68000/1.3 PROBLEMS AND PRINTER CONFIGURATION *3]5@6 by zYLAX / PTK *1]1@7 \X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X/X\X @1 If you are running this diskmag on an A500, you may be experiencing a few difficulties. There is nothing wrong with the mag it's just that... well... the A500's abilities have become slightly limited these days. The main problem with the A500, and any other Amiga operating under OS1.3, is it's 512K ChipRAM limit. Although, a lot of programs have been coded to solve this problem by making use of added FastRAM for storage purposes and spooling it to ChipRAM when required, DMC (and, therefore, Beyond Sanit-E) is not. This leaves us with a dilemma of which there are two solutions:@5]5 1. Produce a cut-down version of Beyond Sanit-E so it is able to run within half a meg of RAM. 2. Leave Beyond Sanit-E as it is with the risk that A500 owners may have problems loading some of the articles and/or muzik. @1]1 Predictably, we have chosen the latter option. This is because there is no way that we can cut-down the magazine whilst maintaining the quality of it. Besides, what about everybody else out there with 2MB of ChipRAM (...and there's a hell of a lot of them out there) why shouldn't they have a mag that makes the most out of their machine? Considering virtually every other disk magazine on the PD scene has abandoned the A500 for dead (many have gone AGA only!), I don't think you can really complain about a few error messages now and again. Unfortunately, this is a situation that will only be made worse as the magazine grows and becomes increasingly more memory intensive. So we are considering the possibility of releasing two versions of each issue of Beyond Sanit-E, starting with BS4: One for the OCS machines (A500, A1000, etc) and the other for the ECS/AGA machines (A600, A1200, etc). This seems to be the only way we can please everyone all of the time. Meanwhile, if you are having any major problems running Beyond Sanit-E, try turning off the music and disabling any external drives to free up some memory. @2 -------------------------------------- @1 Unfortunately, another problem has surfaced during the making of BSE4. With all the extra enhancements to DMC V3.0, it's harder work on the processor and you may find the mag slows down considerably on anything lower than a 68020. Yeah, we know it shouldn't happen and AMOS is total bollox, but we're stuck at the moment. Fortunately, we have a new coder (HiYA White Lightening!) who will be re-coding the mag section by section in Assembler as time goes on. This means that eventually we shown have the mag running on basic machines like... well... greased shit on a shovel! @2 -------------------------------------- @1 If you've printed anything out from BSE3, then you'll already be familiar with our new print options screen when you select the PRINT button. But here's a recap for anyone whose not sure. Amongst the options you can select, for example, to print individual pages or to print in a smaller sized font. Unfortunately, the poor old "generic" printer driver can't handle any special printing functions such as these. So you will have to use a printer driver that suits your own particular printer. At the moment, the driver installed on this disk is "EpsonQ", which is designed for 24-pin, dot-matrix printers that are Epson-compatible or can emulate an Epson printer. The "system-configuration" file is also set up to look for this driver too. If you own an alternative printer and would like to output articles to it directly from Beyond Sanit-E, you will have to personalize your copy of the magazine with a new driver and "system-configuration". @3]3 PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MAY ONLY SPREAD COPIES OF BEYOND SANIT-E THAT HAVEN'T BEEN TAMPERED WITH.