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- From: pete@bignode.southern.co.nz (Pete Moore)
- Subject: Re: Microbotics VXL30 memory mapping
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- References: <948.6652T1386T2066@norconnect.no>
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- Date: 23 Mar 96 20:07:38 +1200
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- Vidar S°rensen (vidar@norconnect.no) wrote:
-
- >The following question is from a friend of mine without access to the net.
- >Hope somebody are able to help!
- >
- >I have a VXL30 Accelerator with 8 Meg 32 bit Ram card in my A500..
- >VXL30 should allow copying The Amiga Kick Start Rom to Ram by using FASTROM
- >command. However, this results in following message:
- >
- > - Memory cannot be allocated for FASTROM option -
- >
- >My 8 Meg 32 bit Ram card is mapped low (at address 0020 0000).
-
- I have an A500 with VXL & 2 Meg RAM, also mapped low, and FASTROM
- definitely works. Tell your friend to put this command near the start of
- his startup-sequence:
-
- setvxl >nil: fastrom NOINTER
-
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