I only have 16mb fastmem. Is that enough?
Would shoving kickstart to fastmem instead of rom speed things up? and can it be done with my Apollo 1240?
Yes, if it isn't already. I had a very early model Apollo 1240 and found that various things were in Chip RAM that should be remapped, such as the VBR, exec base and a few kickstart libraries. Remapping those (and the kickstart) made a conspicuous increase in speed, well worth spending a MB or so of my 16MB (as it was then).
Later, I added FBlit, FText and newicons to the mix and again, noticed the improvement.
Chip RAM should ideally just be for stuff the custom chips are going to use; bitmaps, sprites and maybe some sounds (if not using AHI). Stuff the CPU needs to use, code or data, is going to slow down if it's there.
