Re: Why apple2

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Mon, 20 Oct 97 20:18:00 CST, "Gary Sutton" <otter@oz.net> wrote:

>And don't forget.  You will never see 'General Protection Fault' when 
>using a II, although there's always that annoying 'No Buffers 
>Available' error, for which I could never find more than a very brief 
>explanation and absolutely no solution to fix...

Under what conditions are you getting the "NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE"
error?

If it is when trying to load a program that was originally written for
DOS 3.3 and has been transfered to a ProDOS disk, it might be due to
the ProDOS's memory protection system.  If a program tries to load
directly into a protected area of memory (zero page, stack, input
buffer, TEXT SCREEN, ProDOS memory) then you will get this error.  The
text screen is capitalized because this is usually the culprit.

I have written a program launcher for ProDOS 8 that gives you the
option to disable ProDOS's memory protection to run these types of
programs.  It is called Selector and is on either Ground or Caltech.

The protection can actually be disabled using a single POKE statement
but I can't remember the location or value off hand.