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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: TheMagicM on September 10, 2004, 04:22:00 AM

Title: Virtual memory on classic Amiga
Post by: TheMagicM on September 10, 2004, 04:22:00 AM

When I had my A3k a few years back I remember downloading some aminet software that let you have virtual ram but I never did seem to get it to work.  Anyone ever tried any 'disk based' virtual ram?

Title: Re: Virtual memory on classic Amiga
Post by: Cyberus on September 10, 2004, 04:30:14 AM

I have Gigamem, which is a commercial virtual mem prog.
It was also installed on a A1200T system I bought a year ago.

I guess these days, now RAM is much cheaper, there is less demand for such programs....?

Title: Re: Virtual memory on classic Amiga
Post by: Jeff on September 10, 2004, 04:33:15 AM

I beta tested one through several versions and it worked well as I remember. It was years ago and I can't remember the name at the moment.  Maybe Amiga VMM?

Jeff

Title: Re: Virtual memory on classic Amiga
Post by: Cyberus on September 10, 2004, 04:38:11 AM

Strange, but a google search for gigamem turned up this:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=oktagon (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=oktagon)

Its a link for a SCSI controller, yet there seems to be a DMS file with GigaMem v2.0 at the bottom of the description, perhaps worth a look...

Title: Re: Virtual memory on classic Amiga
Post by: gizz72 on September 10, 2004, 05:43:03 AM

:oops: Double post...

Title: Re: Virtual memory on classic Amiga
Post by: gizz72 on September 10, 2004, 05:43:23 AM

Greetings,

GigaMem:

Quote

Only MC68020 and MC68030 supported yet.  

To add, on a '020 system would also require an MMU. Hope your A3k has such a CPU or better?

AmigaVMM is quite unstable on my A1200 in the long term. Meybe some application hates/conflicts with VMM.

Regards,

Gizz

Title: Re: Virtual memory on classic Amiga
Post by: adolescent on September 10, 2004, 05:49:41 AM

Gigamem 3.0 supports the 040.  I used it back in the day on my A3000 to do image processing with AdPro.