Re: Steamband for RISC OS _ DO NOT USE

On 8 May 2008 as I do recall,
          Steve Clark  wrote:

> THIs SteamBand has just killed my machine.  IT Hung and i exited using
> QUit & SAvE
> 
> my keyboard is now virtually non-functional & I'm using Chars to type
this.
> 
> I'm hoping explaining the effect on my ALL my *bands will let someone
help
> me fix ny machine:
> 
> 1 DblE click or !Run or Savefile on any *band opens lib.user

I don't see why lib.user, no option that I know of can do that on
purpose so how could it get triggered consistently by a bug?

> 2 no bands have icons

*Band.!Boot is failing before reaching the line 

IconSprites <Obey$Dir>.!Sprites

?


> 3 click !RunImage gives "No Writable memory error"
> 4 Running  !Startdand and clicking Play! gives "Can't use that
> loc`ation(å)"

This is caused by the failure of OS_File 6 and/or OS_File 10 in
!Startband when attempting to create a file at the specified
location....


> 
> I've Tried deletng my BOOT and REplacinh it from scratch (*CD*) with
> minor improvement.  This extent of damage should be impossible on a
RISCOS
> machine

That shouldn't be possible.


You've still got the OS in ROM.   Presumably you've tried a ****ft-Boot?
Have you got !Re****ter?


> 
> If anyone wants to go tpo email  I can still use webmail on my M$
machine
> 

Well I've noticed a couple of 'funnies' since upgrading my Steamband
(first Rhapsody crashed every time I tried to run it then PipeDream kept
complaining it was out of memory although I had over 4Mb free) but I
didn't connect either of them with the program.   I don't see how they
could have been, Steamband doesn't even get seen by the Filer unless I
manually open the Angband directory.

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