Re: Marinetti and Appletalk

[andrew.webber4@virgin.net (Andrew Webber)]

andrew.roughan@writeme.com (Roughana) wrote in message news:<f6ab8a2f.0212301553.11c5ba70@posting.google.com>...
> 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?)

Is Scrambler freely available?
> 
> > 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.

Is there anyway to turn off Marinetti without having to remove the init?
> 
> 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