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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

795.0. "Memory and Drive Test Software Wanted" by NAC::PLOUFF (LANsman Wes) Mon Oct 12 1987 16:03

    Some help for the nervous new owner, please.  I bought a refurbished
    A1000 recently, and it crashes a lot, like maybe once every hour
    or two.  This seems to happen mostly when running public domain
    software such as Gravitywars.  The problem is possibly the software
    not being well-behaved, the download from my local VAX being flaky,
    or the Amiga hardware going bad.
    
    Can anyone help with diagnosing the hardware.   Are there memory
    and disk drive test programs out there?
    
    What are the worst-behaved PD programs around (no older than this
    year)?
    
    --Wes

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
795.1		NAC::VISSER		`Mon Oct 12 1987 16:18`	2
	Wes, could you explain the type of crashes you get? Are they hangs, software error requesters, Gurus, smoke?
795.2	Software error --> Guru or Reboot	NAC::PLOUFF	LANsman Wes	`Mon Oct 12 1987 16:33`	7
	Most errors are software error requesters when attempting disk operations or loading programs. Usually I have run several things since booting up. Once I crashed when exiting Preferences. I had moved the mouse before Preferences finished writing to the disk. This, I found out, is supposed to be a well-known bug in the operating system.
795.3		DICKNS::MACDONALD	WA1OMM Listening 224.28	`Mon Oct 12 1987 18:14`	2
	GravWars I believe was written on 1.1. I wasn't too impressed with it.
795.4	Pa los gustos, los colores	ROZETT::SANTIAGO	Slidin dwn the razorblade of life	`Mon Oct 12 1987 18:25`	5
	Just goes to show... Gravity Wars is one of the most entertaining games I've found for the Amiga so far! Ed_who_never_really_saw_the_fun_in_Adventure_and_who_is_too_klutzy_ to_play_arcade_style_games
795.5	power up diag	NAC::VISSER		`Tue Oct 13 1987 18:30`	1
	see note 632 for power up diagnostic results/key to screen colors.