--- Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> >And as Jeff said - Amigas flash the power LED. The flash is between low
> >and high intensity, and it's actually an indication of the status of the
> >audio filter :&) IIRC, bright is off and dimmer is on.
I don't think it's attached to the audio filter on an A1000, but I
could be misremembering. I think they wanted an extra bit and didn't
want to make any of the I/O incompatible when they added a feature.
> > And yes, it flashes before you get a Guru Meditation (kickstart 1.3 and
> > below) or Software Failure (kickstart 2+). Gives you a chance to press
> > right mouse button and fire up ROMwhack :&)
Exactly. I remember a sinking feeling in my stomach when the machine
would freeze and the light would slowly blink before revealing the
obvious.
> I knew that while running some applications such as GMPlay
> that the LED would dim but I was never sure why. That's a good thing
> to know. You're right though that it's not a GURU for KS 2+, but a
> software failure. I tend to describe any error which brings up the
> red box error as a GURU though. It gives you little option other
> than pressing the mouse button and rebooting.
Little option as a user, yes. As a developer, sometimes you could
wring some idea of what just happened out of ROMwhack. GOMF was better,
though (because you didn't have to crash and lose and diagnostic messages),
as was a little wedge in the Guru routine that would translate the Guru
numbers into plaintext inside a *huge* red blinky box. I forget what it
was called, but it was handy because it saved much time when diagnosing
what stupid thing you'd done in the code.
-ethan
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Received on Tue Dec 25 2001 - 14:30:50 GMT