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- From: rjpogain@socs.uts.edu.au (r j pogainis)
- Subject: Re: 1/2 Meg Chip --> 1 Meg Chip RAM!
- Message-ID: <rjpogain.722467330@yak>
- Sender: news@socs.uts.edu.au
- Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
- References: <1992Nov17.131742.24890@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> <Bxwn0H.8M3@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 21:22:10 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- ss@cch.coventry.ac.uk (WeaponX) writes:
-
- >now the kcs board allowed me the option to use that half meg as a ram
- >disk or as fast ram (i thought). Before i got my hard disk the half
- >meg was a ram disk but once i installed my hard disk i completely forgot
- >to install the kcs ram disk thus (i thought) leaving the half meg as
- >fast ram BUT
-
- >after several upgrades of the kcs board (software based by the way
- >the kcs board is a pc emulator and good at it) i think my extra
- >kcs half meg had made my chip ram upto 1 meg of chip ram.(i dont
- >know how)
-
- >The only reason i know this is that a computer magazine (cant remember
- >which one) gave away a demo of ceaser but it would only work if you
- >had 1 meg chip ram. So my cousin who lives with also has an amiga
- >his being a 1.3 a500 without a kcs board tried the demo but to
- >no avail.
-
- >So i tried out the demo. (i think i may have copied to my hd can't
- >remember) and to my amazement it worked!! (Total Amazement). My
- >cousin and i could'nt understand how but i figured it was the extra
- >half meg which i think, not to sure but i believe the kcs board
- >had defaulted the half meg to chip ram. (I have the old chip set)
-
- >So i believe there must be a way to turn your memory somehow into
- >1 meg chip ram.
- >How this helps
-
- The only way to add extra chip memory is with a Fatter Agnus!
- Have you tried this demo without the KCS board plugged in?
- You may already have the 1meg chip, without even realising. ie/ CBM somehow or other sold the computer with a newer Agnus.
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