HardPressed

[cb408@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Reames)]

A few days ago I posted my first opinions on HardPressed.  Now that
I've worked a little more with it I've changed my mind for these
reasons:
 
  * though the documentation says it can be installed on a 3.5" drive,
I haven't been able to do so, even after working on for an hour.
The first attempt failed about about 30 disk swaps- no dialog why.
The second attempt failed after SIXTY DISK SWAPS (I counted!!).  
The error message says there wasn't enough disk space.  (Why didn't it 
tell me so before swapping disks for 20 minutes!)
Then I tried removing every possible item from a system disk (including
Start, Finder and P8).  There STILL was not enough room (about 120K 
short).
 
  * I had 4 files trashed in 3 days-(2 HyperStudio stacks and 2 Hyper-
Card stack).  Technical Support thought there might be a problem
with Kangaroo, but even when I disabled Kangaroo the files were
trashed.
 
  * It is VERY RAM hungry.  I have 2.25M RAM.  I use 96k for a Ram drive
and parcelled out 128k for HP to use as cache.  With that configuration
I was only able to only ONE Platinum Paint document.  HyperCard GS
refused to even run.
 
  * It is very slow- nearly two minutes to open AWGS and a doc (and I
have a Zip Chip).
 
So........
   if you have 4M RAM, don't mind the slow speed, dont' use Kangaroo,
HyperStudio or HyperCard GS, don't want to use it with a 3.5" disk, 
it might be valuable.
-- 
R Reames .............................................Maranatha!!