Amiga 600, whdload and dissapearing memory

[kolla]

This is all normal behaviour, the WHDLoad icons tend to be rather big, colourful icons that steal away your precious chipram. One way to improve the situation is to replace the icons with simpler icons, or use a dedicated WHDLoad launcher. Also, adding FastRAM helps, which on A600 means either getting hold of an acc-card or RAM card to fit inside the PCMCIA slot. These days, getting an acc-card is easier. Trapdoor RAM is only use to increase chipram from 1MB to 2MB, as you have seen.

[kolla]

Thanks Kolla.. so how do ppl woth 2MB run games? (Whatever games run with 2). Booting/launching differently? Because like I said, i lose all my memory before even launching the game :angry:

Typically by using a dedicated launcher, like X-bench or Tinylauncher.

http://www.jimneray.com/xbench.html
http://ohmygibs.free.fr/ohmygibs/TinyLauncher.html

I must admit I have not tried any of them though.

[kolla]

Kolla, I assume if you never even tried them you have lots of ram? :laugh1:

Yes, my A600 has an acc board with 32MB