Tom Thul, 8 meg, A500 instructions please?

[AmmoJammo]

Are there any clear instructions around on how to setup/configure this? as well as configure WB3.1 to automatically do this when it boots?

The hardware came with a disc, but no "you're a dumba$$" instructions, which is really what I'm needing.

thanks!

[AmmoJammo]

Whats the easiest way to edit the startup sequence file? :p

[AmmoJammo]

Shell window, type ED s:startup-sequence

[AmmoJammo]

sorted, thanks!

the disc wasn't adding the ram, as the 1meg in the A590 was still enabled

Only think is, ED Player wants more chip ram

[AmmoJammo]

I was under the impression that if you did the 1meg internal hack, that the first 512k of the trapdoor ram won't be used anyway?

I'm probably wrong though :p

so, this "FASTMEMFIRST" line? just add it exactly like that, in the startup-sequence file? directly after the S:autoaddram line?

is FASTMEMFIRST a program/whatever that I need to also copy?

thanks

[AmmoJammo]

I didnt realise there was a difference between chip and slow, thanks. Got a link to the mod ?

[AmmoJammo]

interesting... a piece of hardware that requires you to "hack" your motherboard... :p

I assumed you guys were talking about the mod where you add another 512k onto the motherboard in the spare spots...

[AmmoJammo]

before motherboard mod:


after motherboard mod:


I reckon I'd still like a bit more, 2 meg total maybe...

knives are fun... I work in electronics assembly, its no big deal cutting tracks :p

[AmmoJammo]

Great AmmoJammo!!
Looks nice (WB 2.x there?)...

its WB3.1, which means it doesn't come with fastmemfirst.

I copied it from the WB1.3 floppy, to C.

added C:fastmemfirst to the startup sequence, then tried C:fastmemfirst >NIL:

neither left me with anymore free chip mem once WB had loaded. oh well.

[AmmoJammo]

If you have a harddrive on your system, if you need more chip ram reduce how many addbuffers you have in the s/startup-sequence.

each buffer eats way 30k of chip ram if I remember correctly.

The buffers are there to speed up directory searching and loading of small files. If you have a CF adapter on your machine then you should only have a few buffers because the CF is much faster than older XT or AT harddrives which were common, or slow old scsi-50pin which the addbuffers command was there to help speed up.

Az

ah yes, this isn't my picture/info thread, so that would explain.. I didn't go into much detail in this thread :p

but I did in this thread!
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61854

thanks for calling my scsi HDD slow

[AmmoJammo]

pfft! the A500+ is like the A500, but with corrosive stuff poured on the motherboard :p lol