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- "RAMDOS.PRG" - RAMDOS BASIC LOADER FILE
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- This file you can use with RAMDOS instead of the loader that comes with
- it. This loader benefits from avoiding some problems with the other
- loader. All of these differences specifically concern the C128 mode.
-
- When used with JiffyDOS, previously you could face this. Right after
- enabling RAMDOS, load up some very large file. For me, I loaded one of
- the ACE archives.
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- /ACE.SFX
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- Wham! The computer crashes. Or something. Why? The reason for this
- sillyness actually originates with JiffyDOS itself. JD suffers a bug in
- which a certain file Load register is not initialized, but should be.
- This was very simple to adjust in the loader to avoid this crashing.
- Now, you should be able to load very large files.
-
- Another item is graphic allocation. The other loader allocated the
- graphic area. Unfortunately, many programs are not designed to work
- when the graphic area is allocated. They will simply crash. So this
- loader does not allocate the graphic area.
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- I have not included the actual RAMDOS drivers here because of comments
- by the author of the 2Mb patch. No matter. Just locate those files if
- you don't have them.
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- If you should wish to disable RAMDOS, this is accomplished if you run
- the loader and accept the prompts when your disk with the RD drivers is
- not inserted.
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- Here's one tip. If you have JiffyDOS, and you make a habit of copying
- files to ramdisk, then you might add the following line to the program,
- which will set you up for copying.
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- 345 @xu
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- - Adam Vardy
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