i've bever really understood the 'alpha on' thing that it has in the options menu... can en1 tell me wat that is all about???

when you enable alpha, you can enter lowercase letters. Press alpha twice to enable lowercase when you can enter some text.

Nope:
Alpha+On puts the calc into APD mode (doesn't switch it off, but puts it in a low-power state) - try it! If you're in a menu or something, 2nd+On then On again returns you to the homescreen, but Alpha+On the On again and you're back where you were.

Oh... That's why my batteries were draining faster than normal when I used that.

I have actually gotten 2 random RAM clears outside of MirageOS that I'm pretty sure were caused by it. I never had this problem when I used to use CrunchyOS...

and yes this is in v1.2

If they were /random/ crashes, /outside/ of Mirage, what makes you think Mirage caused them?
DS has a pretty solid reputation, and if you want to call one of their programs buggy, you'd better come up with some good evidence if you want people to believe you.

well you do have me with that one. But I switched to CrunchyOS for that very reason. When I was using v1.1 of Mirage, I got one of those RAM clears probably once a day. For whatever reason, I blamed it on Mirage, started using Crunchy, and then never got a single one the whole time I was using Crunchy, which was about 4 months. I'm just saying that they recently came back when I started using Mirage again. Not to put down Mirage, or anyone involved with it's development, because it obviously out-performs any other shell, ever, period.

I suspect (just a suspicion) that there was a memory leak. What I do to remedy it is to backup programs, reset RAM and ARC VARS (not the APPS) and load the programs again. After that, everything works again.

Thanks I'll try that. I got another RAM clear today except it was within the the shell this time while garbage collecting from a basic program. Has anyone else had trouble using garbage collect from within a basic program being run by mirage?

I dont know about you, but i have never had my calc crash because of one of Detached's applications, and ive been using them for ~3 years. Maybe its something else on your calc or just your calc. Or then again, it could be the basic program running in mirage that might be causing them inside of mirage, but not outside of it. Ive never really used this option because do not use basic programs at all.

I destrotyed 3 83+ courtesy MirageOSv1.0. Hidded programs did not handle well during a grabage collect.

-W-

I am pretty sure that should have been "hidden"....

-W-

Yep, and I didn't even notice the error the first time reading through. That just shows you how observant I am. Heh.

It's probably just cause we're all used to people doing type-os so we just ignore them. Anyway, how are you supposed to spell type-o?

typo

now that i think about it, the prog was hidden at the time. that may have had something to do with it :)

All my programs (13 or 14) are hidden and archived, and garbage collects don't seem to cause any ill effects.

Are you using v1.0? If so, you should be shot. Also, you would not have an 83+ to speak of, unless you kept returning it.

-W-

I'm using 1.2

And I assure you I have an 83+. And it's still working quite well (I have yet to break it in any way)

Good. I did not want to have to do any shoting. It is also good that you have not utterly destroyed your cacl in the past.

-W-

How does that prgm hide thingy work anyway? Does it simply delete/edit/move the progs vat data or something?