Re: Marinetti and Appletalk

[andrew.roughan@writeme.com (Roughana)]

andrew.webber4@virgin.net (Andrew Webber) wrote in message news:<9801a764.0212300929.2f30f0af@posting.google.com>...
> Does anyone know if these two happily co-exist?

The theory is that they should. In practice there are a few glitches
in currently available versions of Marinetti.

> I have been having some issues were GS/OS will just hang at random places.

I have experienced random lockups in the Marinetti stack after
variable periods of use. I have been banging my head against this
issue for a while and I have not been able to work out why it happens.

(However, Amazingly, if I enable Scrambler NDA to move memory handles
around all instability vanishes! - I'm still trying to figure this one
out and verify - all help apprecitated - perhaps you can replicate
this?)

> It seems to go away when Marinetti is removed 
> or if I disable AppleShare (via Control Panel).

The instability is triggered by the positioning of executable code in
memory. De-activating or changing the load order of DAs, Inits, CDEVs
etc will all have an effect on the memory footprint of Marinetti.

In the short term, I suggest that you enable AppleShare and Marinetti
and deactivate other items until it works for you.
Then create a new System folder, copy in the items that work, retry to
make sure it still works, then add back things until it doesnt work.
Once you have found a situation that doesnt work, see if you can live
with what you have that did work.

I would really love to track this stuff down. A logic analyser would
be really useful. Failing that, an interactive debugger from an
emulated environment would be really cool too (Roll on Florence!)

Assistance from anyone with the Marinetti Open Source Project would be
very much appreciated too. Testers with GSBUG and assembler tracing
experience, and some time are needed now. Usage of Merlin would be an
advantage but not essential.

If you'd like to help send an email to
roughana at users dot sourceforge dot net

Cheers,
Andrew