VXL-30 RAM contention with GVP series II HD RAM

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hi!

Sorry to drag up such an old thread, but I came across it a month or two back while googling and wanted to say thanks, that the solution they provided works perfect for me as well.  I'm able to use the 2MB of fast on my VXL*30 and 8MB on my GVP sidecar with no issues, for a total of 10MB fast and 2MB chip in my A500.

Attached are a couple screenshots of my config (since romtagmem can be kind of tricky), if anyone else ever comes across this dilemma in the future.  You'll see I'm actually doing a double reboot during startup, once to add the extra 2MB high and again to add things like Peter K.'s updated libraries.  Boot time is still only a minute or two, just enough time to get a cup of coffee.    Pretty much all libraries then load into the 32-bit fast, as well as the ROM, for best performance.  Only downside is with my config it eats up nearly all of my 32-bit fast - still trying to hunt down the correct chips to upgrade my VXL to 8MB, as well.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Can you please post ss of your ROMTagMem config? I just bought VXL30 and GVP sidecar. Thanks! Plus I cannot find ROMTagMem anywhere.

Wow!  Holy nostalgia, batman.  I got an email that you'd tagged me.  My login for this site hasn't worked for a couple years, and honestly my A500 has sat in a box since we moved five years ago.  Life and work got in the way, you know how it goes.  I guess screenshots on this site got purged a while back.  So I thought "What are the chances I still have any screenshot?"  I looked in my Google Photos and searched for "Amiga", and nothing helpful came up.  Then I searched for "Startup-Sequence" and lo and behold, a screenshot of my Startup-Sequence from December 2017, and another from August 2017.     Obviously you'll need to adjust the parameters based on your amount of memory.

I don't remember how I even knew to set this up.  But I do remember that with the VXL + GVP Sidecar + MegaChip my A500 had a total of 18MB of memory (8MB 16-bit fast, 8MB 32-bit fast).  It worked well for a long time.   Years.  But I think one of the last times I used it, something wasn't working anymore.  I think maybe I fubar'd the VXL memory sidecar by overclocking the board.  Or maybe I'm just completely remembering wrong.  In any case, I hope this screenshot helps!