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Re: PhotoShop try-out v2.5.1b21 & E/D 1.99q12



>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Harris <davekh@cbdale.compulink.co.uk> writes:
In article <4ja3so$n8b@zinc.compulink.co.uk> davekh@cbdale.compulink.co.uk (Dave Harris ) writes:


    Dave> Informal user report.  I would like to say well done to ARDI
    Dave> as I'm well impressed with 1.99q12

    Dave> I am running E/D 1.99q12 on a 486dx33, 12meg ram 100meg hdd
    Dave> & Dos 6.22 & also an old Gravis Ultrasound card (which when
    Dave> running the SB emulator as well sounds good from Executor
    Dave> :-))

    Dave> I bought 'Complete Idiots guide to Photoshop' ages ago ... &
    Dave> MAC cdrom was useless to me at the time.  I tried to install
    Dave> it into an earlier version of E/D... no chance.. but now
    Dave> :-))) 1.99q12 let me install it

    Dave>  copied the .sit off the cdrom into a Macvolume.. & expanded
    Dave> it & installed it. The run the prog & all seemed well.  I
    Dave> could look at PICT file from another Mac proggy & a TIF file
    Dave> from the DOS part of the HDD (Took AGES tho).. not checked
    Dave> much else out, but it doesnt see the .JPG dos files tho.

    Dave> The Photoshop version I'm using is v2.5.1b21 & It took 2
    Dave> minutes to get from clicking on the icon to being able to do
    Dave> anything with the prog. The it took 30seconds to load a Mac
    Dave> PICT file of 192k & I edited it a bit (that took ages to
    Dave> take effect) & I tried out a change of mode from RGB to
    Dave> Indexed colour, that took just under two minutes as a small
    Dave> guide to the kind of speed...There is no save facility in
    Dave> the prog (It's a 'try-out version) & I've not got around to
    Dave> installing the 'plug-ins' yet, but It works!!

    Dave> I initially tried running the -info recommendations of
    Dave> appzone3.42m & got out of memory error.. So I ran it with
    Dave> 10meg That sorted things out..

Executor suggested an ApplZone of 3.42m probably because it only found
about 7m of physically available memory (after chewing up about 1.5m
for itself).  By asking Executor to use 10m you're probably forcing
Executor to page, which can result in a significant slowdown.

You may be able to adjust your boot setup so that Executor has more of
your 12m to work with, and even if you can't, you might do better by
specifying -applzone 8m instead of 10m.  The problem is that Photoshop
wants lots of memory.

    Dave> I am looking forward to getting my CDROM when they're
    Dave> ready. Once again .**Well done ARDI crew** I'm glad I
    Dave> registered..

We're glad you did, too.

We're working hard on getting the CD-ROM ready.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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