RAD

[scuzzb494]

Hi

One of the interesting things about mucking around with DOOM on the AF CD was that it created a RAD disk on the machine that just would not go away. Anyway it wasn`t there today so I had a play myself with RAD. Thing was as I mucked around I get a checksum error on RAD.. which is strange. I then decided to Quickformat RAD and this converted it to EMPTY as I didn`t name it, complete with TrashCan. Then I removed the RAD icon from the DOSDrivers drawer and the thing still wouldn`t go away, and again had a checksum error...

Anyway I recalled the old 'remrad' command from the Shell and the poor thing finally died. Would have been OK if it hadn`t have eaten up the ChipRAM. Still, can't understand how it got a checksum error though. Can anyone educate me please ?

scuzz

[scuzzb494]

Hi

Thing is that the RAD survived a system shut down and reboot even after I had removed RAD from the DosDrivers drawer. The only way I could kill it was to enter the killer remrad from the shell. I had hardly touched the capacity of the RAD before I got the Checksum. What was amazing to me was that having played with DOOM from a CD the resultant DOOM_RAD could not be located on the machine. And I had switched the computer off a few times, and it still appeared. Yet this morning it had gone. I have a Blizzard Turbo with SCSI KIT, 3 hard drives, ZIP, CDROM 32MB RAM on a desktop A1200.

scuzz

[scuzzb494]

Hi

BufMemType is set to value 1, so what would this change to. The Blizzard is probably the culprit here I guess. I will create a custom RAD and have a play.

scuzz

[scuzzb494]

Hi

Sorry. Think we are at cross purposes. The RAD was resident in the DEVS/DOSDriver drawer so will activate each time you reboot or start from cold. Thing was I got a checksum on this. And even after restart it still had the checksum. I had some fun formatting the RAD and renaming then deleting but wouldn`t go away without remrad. Anyway.. I have been reading that you should really just launch from Storage. I think its the way the workbench is loaded using the Blizzard. Probably wrong, but working on the old double click now.

scuzz