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Re: Picasso II / A2000 question
« on: March 01, 2012, 03:58:18 PM »
Quote from: dougal;681964
Is it true that with a 2MB Picasso II the A2000 can only have 6mb fast ram?


That's a good question!  I had this exact setup in my A2000.  But I *can't* remember....argh!

My first reaction is that since the 2MB RAM on the Picasso II is video ram for the Picasso's use only, it shouldn't affect the Amiga's normal RAM limitation.

But some niggling memory is telling me I only put 6MB on my SupraRAM card because of some conflict with some other hardware.....i.e. 1MB on the motherboard, 6MB SupraRAM and the remaining 2MB RAM space was being taken up by some other hardware in my A2000 which was either the 2MB on the Picasso II card or 2MB from my 040's 32-bit ram which needed to be mapped into the A2000's 9mb space for some reason (DMA transfers?).

Sorry for the fuzzy memory!
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