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- From: mohrt@cse.unl.edu (Monte Ohrt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: MBX1230/50/50
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 23:12:58 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- ghira@mistral.co.uk (Adam Atkinson) writes:
-
- >>>>Does anyone have this accelerator for their 1200? If so, have you
- >>>>experienced any crashes, bugs, etc?
- >>>>Thanks. I will be using it with a 4 meg simm.
- >>>>
- >>>>Alex
- >>>>email:ap25444@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
- >>>
- >>>Works great for me. 8 meg simm for around 2 years now. Doesn't autoconfig
- >>>the ram, but it's not a big deal if you've got RomTagMem or Addmem3.0, both
- >>>on Aminet. Be nice if it had a 2nd simm socket too. Best to get it with all
- >>>the ram you think you'll need for a while.
- >>>
- >>>...Sean.
-
- >>What is wrong with just using AutoXA (came with it, for me), are the
- >>aforementioned utilities better? Just curious.
-
- >Only discovered this recently myself:
-
- >if you use addmem (or romtag, I suppose: haven't actually tried) then you
- >get more chip memory free the second and subsequent times you boot the
- >machine. this is better than setxa. so use addmem, turn the machine on,
- >reboot it at once, and (with my setup) you have 300k more chip memory free
- >than you would using setxa.
-
- >I've heard the ram is autoconfig if you have kickstart 3.1
-
- >even with addmem, RAD: seems to use chip memory rather than fast memory
- >(and so does kick13). will these use fastram if I get kickstart 3.1, does
- >anyone know?
-
- >Adam Atkinson - ghira@mistral.co.uk / etlaman@etlxdmx.ericsson.se
- >Man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
-
-
- When the M1230XA first came out, it came with SetXA, which just added
- the memory without a warm reboot (thus leaving all sytem software
- resident in chip memory). Then later AutoXA came out which does a
- warm reboot when configuring memory, thus freeing up chip ram. I've
- used my M1230XA with 16 megs of 60ns ram for about 2-3 years, and
- have never run into any accellorator-related problems. Works 100%.
- There's no auto-config, so a quick warm reboot on initial power up
- is needed.
-
- Monte
-
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