Easy Money Frequently Asked Questions
Answers
When I double-click on the Easy Money icon nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
This just means that Easy Money has been unable to open something during its startup processing and has terminated. Unfortunately I did not build any error messages into v1.00, so instead of the program telling you what is wrong, it simply shuts down without giving any visual indication that it has done anything. This has been corrected in v1.10.
If you have started the Easy Money recently and it is now refusing to start, it is likely that you have forgotten to shut down the previous instance. Check that you have not moved the Easy Money screen into the background and forgotten about it.
If you are running version 1.00 you can either upgrade to v1.10 or you can try the Test_Startup program, both of which are available on the downloads page. Test_Startup will perform exactly the same startup procedure as the full program and will display an error message detailing what has gone wrong.
If you are running version 1.10 there is no need to use the Test_Startup program. All the same error messages are now built into the main program. In order to see any of the messages from either program you will need to run it from the command line. Hopefully these messages will help you locate and fix the problem.
The items Easy Money needs to open are listed in the following table.
| intuition.library | version 36 or above | Should be built into the OS ROM |
| graphics.library | version 36 or above | Should be built into the OS ROM |
| gadtools.library | version 37 or above | Should be built into the OS ROM |
| asl.library | version 36 or above | Should be stored in your libs: directory |
| utility.library | version 36 or above | Should be built into the OS ROM |
| icon.library | version 36 or above | Should be built into the OS ROM |
| topaz.font | 8 point | Should be built into the OS ROM |
| the screen | 640 x 256 x 3 (PAL) | You might need to free some chip memory |
Unfortunately Easy Money was designed to be used with a fixed screen size of 640 x 256 which is a PAL format screen. This has caused problems for people using an NTSC based machine because the PAL sreen mode is not available. If this appears to be the problem you might be able to use some screen mode promotion software to trap the request for the PAL screen and create and NTSC screen instead. If that fails then you will not be able to run Easy Money. Sorry. This was done to keep things simpler for me and I didn't realise would be a problem when I first designed the program. By the time I realised, it was too late to fix it.
