4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
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4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
Is there a way to trick my Atari into thinking it has 1MB of RAM using software?
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Re: 4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
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Re: 4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
Probably programs in floppyshop PDL which do it. Of course you can set this easily on a ....H5
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Re: 4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
Interesting thing just happened.
I booted the atari from TOS 1.0 disk.
Then viewed my disk containing the RAM lowering software and a folder containing MIDIDraw.
On the disk there where a few odd files with symbols under them (probably corruption) and the MIDIDraw folder appeared empty.
This disk was formatted in EmuTOS and is DOS compatible (meaning I can swap between PC and Atari)
I noticed last night that a disk formatted in TOS 1.0 isn't swappable between machines.
Anyway...when I reduced my RAM to 1MB the files on my floppy disk appeared normally and the MIDIDraw folder was populated.
Makes me wonder now if my RAM is implicated in some of my past issues (which are easily worked around in my main setup)
MIDI Draw still only manages the start screen and is frozen.
I wonder if this might be copy protection?
I booted the atari from TOS 1.0 disk.
Then viewed my disk containing the RAM lowering software and a folder containing MIDIDraw.
On the disk there where a few odd files with symbols under them (probably corruption) and the MIDIDraw folder appeared empty.
This disk was formatted in EmuTOS and is DOS compatible (meaning I can swap between PC and Atari)
I noticed last night that a disk formatted in TOS 1.0 isn't swappable between machines.
Anyway...when I reduced my RAM to 1MB the files on my floppy disk appeared normally and the MIDIDraw folder was populated.
Makes me wonder now if my RAM is implicated in some of my past issues (which are easily worked around in my main setup)
MIDI Draw still only manages the start screen and is frozen.
I wonder if this might be copy protection?
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Re: 4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
Not sure, but I thought TOS1.00 couldn't even read DOS disks ?
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viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
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viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
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Re: 4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
Probably should leave that rabbit hole @exxos
Peter's RAM program is great. I can run PHYSTOP.TOS in EmuTOS and it restarts my setup and reports the new RAM on the start screen.
Found out that MIDIDraw needs 1MB to run.
Peter's RAM program is great. I can run PHYSTOP.TOS in EmuTOS and it restarts my setup and reports the new RAM on the start screen.
Found out that MIDIDraw needs 1MB to run.
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Re: 4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
Only just saw this!
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Re: 4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
Think it was TOS v1.4 and up that allowed both...
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Re: 4MB to 1MB of RAM in software?
That's the cutoff I recall as well, but again I thought it was about formatting, not reading and that TOS could always read a MS-DOS-formatted floppy. Perhaps someone who knows for sure can set the record straight.