alexatkin wrote:
Incidentally, I was doing some tests in WinUAE and was wonder exactly what data can FAST RAM contain when you have an accelerator? The reason I ask is I tested reading a large directory on my PC in WinUAE with emulated 128MB FAST RAM and it couldnt cope as it exhausted all the CHIP RAM. I presume it was because it was not patched to use the FAST RAM correctly or are there limitations? I dont think WinUAE emulates accelerators as such so the memory mapping is probably not right?
There is no real emulation to an accelerator as such - they're basically transparent for the majority of things, so UAE set to the processor and Z3 memory the accelerator has should appear the very same to the software running on it. I suspect you were running out of chip ram because you're using a native screenmode in UAE for Workbench, and opening the large directory would involve a large number of icons, which Workbench puts in chip ram by default. The best solution as I see it would be to use graphics card emulation through Picasso96, making the UAE Amiga use the RTG memory that you give it in the prefs, but it's a while since I've toyed with it so I'm a bit hazy on the specifics...
