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It's not right for my program which uses the alert function to bring up an alert. ;-) Why not use a requester for that instead? Interesting suggestion because the documentation says that if the requester fails to open, it will revert to an alert. Now we have an infinite loop, don't we. I wouldn't s...

I don't think that NewObject opens a class if it is not yet loaded and I don't think that NewObject("path/name") will succeed. You always have to load required resources before you can use them. So OpenClass or OpenLibrary("gadgets/something.gadget") is needed in any case before ...

If you remove the CF card, does it show the insert-disk-screen? When you switch power on, does the power LED act normally? It should first glow half bright and half a second later change to full brightness. If it does not do this, the Kickstart is not executed. BTW, the page you linked says "ne...

Open a Shell window, put the Modules disk into DF0 and enter these commands:

cd df0:
c/loadmodule devs/a4000d/scsi.device

It will load the driver and reboot. After that you should be able to use the "Read Configuration" button to get the real size of the HDD.

Do I need to get the physical ROM's for the A4000 to make the IDE drives work properly? Short answer: yes, that's the easiest solution. Long answer: you need an update for the IDE driver (called scsi.device). I think the new scsi.device for 3.1.4 comes as a file on the Modules disk. Once you load t...

The message says it all: not enough memory. To validate a 18 gig partition you need around 18 meg of memory. That's not new, it's always been this way, with all flavours of FFS. What's new is that it throws an actual error message instead of just sitting there with a non-validated partition. With Wi...

I have from 640x480 to 1280x1024 screen modes availables in my prefs with 8, 16 and 32 bits modes. Well, no, actually you don't. BGRA32 ias the name of the pixel format, not the depth. Attached is a program which lists all available screen modes. As you can see all the 32 bit modes have a depth of ...

There are at least two errors in your code: Firstly the mode ID is a 32 bit unsigned value. You should use uint32 as its type. Just "int" is too vague. Secondly 0 is a valid mode ID. You should check the returned ID against INVALID_ID and not against 0. Also I would drop the usage of struc...

Well. graphics.library is still backwards compatible with the classic Amiga native chip set. This means that without specifying a special RTG pixel format you are limited to a depth of 8. To get an RTG bitmap with a higher depth than 8 you have to specify a pixel format (for AllocBitMap) or a displa...

FindTask is not a good thing to use for private processes. You should rather design the child tasks so that they signal the main task in Forbid() state only at the very end of the routine. Just use Workbench as a model. So the last few lines of each child process should be either Forbid() ReplyMsg (...