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- From: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.jMKlAl4NqCU@fredrik.atari.no>
- Organization: Atari Corp. Scand. AB (Norway)
- Subject: Re: More TT030 help...
- References: Re: More TT030 help...
- Reply-To: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 18:24:50 MET
- Lines: 44
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- In <1992Sep4.042609.12758@u.washington.edu>, Daniel Aylward writes:
- >I just bought an 8 meg TT. I have a hundred zillion questions, but I'll
- >start off with 2...
- >
- >1) How do you use the Fast RAM? All memory tests show I only have 4,
- >which I can understand, but when I run Calamus and load all my 130 fonts
- >it says I'm out of memory (I know that's only 4 megs because I could load
- >most of my fonts on my 4 meg Mega STe). Do I have to set a bit on the
- >programs I want to make use of Fast RAM? How do I do that?
-
- Calamus can not use TT-ram. BUT, things like AHDI (harddiskdriver),
- CACHExxx.PRG, FOLDERxxx.PRG and other applications in the AUTO folder
- can be loaded to TT-RAM, giving you more free ST ram. Also accessories
- may be loaded into TT-RAM.
- To get a program (or ACC) to load into TT-RAM you either use one off the
- many utilities specially made for this, or you use a fileeditor. The first
- aproach is the easiest. There is a CPX module around (FILEINFO.CPX I think
- it's caled), and there is a ACC around (SETFLAG.ACC). The second approach
- is a litle more complicated:
- It is byte no. 26 (counting first byte as 1) that holds the program flags.
- Note that most file-editors count the first byte as 0.
- Bit 0 is the fastload flag
- Bit 1 is the 'malloc' flag (malloc from ST (unset) or TT (set) ram.)
- Bit 2 is the 'load' flag (Load program to ------------ " ------------)
-
- You have to try out the different combinations to decide wheter a program can
- use the TT-ram. Surprisingly many programs does run well in TT-ram (but not
- Calmus).
- Newer profesional programs (like Calamus SL, Cranach etc.) use both kind of
- ram. I've seen Cranach report over 256Mb (Yeah 256MEGABYTE) free on a TT!!!
-
- >2) Screen trouble(?). My TT Medium res screen is supposed to be 640X400
- >16 colors, right?
- No wrong, it is actually 640x480 16 colors!
-
- >Dan Aylward
- >dud@u.washington.edu
- >
-
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- / Joern F. Moe / All above is my own personal opinion! \
- / Oslo, Norway / Any lack of opinion above is also mine! \
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