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Offline bbond007

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Re: Multiple RAD devices on AMIGA 500 with extra fast ram
« Reply #14 from previous page: September 28, 2012, 11:33:14 PM »
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That's a nice solution, but  it's not "boot proof" right? :-)

nope... not bullet proof at all. a lot of software has custom track loaders and its not going to work with many. A lot of those multi-disk adventure games will work.

Heck, a lot of those old ADFs I have on my minimig won't even make use of more than one floppy drive, and as you may know, Minimig (with ARM) has 4 virtual floppy slots :)

You might be better off looking into one of those hardware floppy drive emulators. I don't know much about them or which is the best.

I did it the lazy way with my A1200... I downloaded a huge torrent of whdload games all ready to go...

That would assume you have a HD though...

My minimig only has 3.5mb RAM and whdload works very well. The only drawback to running it on a 68000 is that you can't exit many games and you have to reboot...
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Re: Multiple RAD devices on AMIGA 500 with extra fast ram
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2012, 11:33:15 AM »
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You might be better off looking into one of those hardware floppy drive emulators. I don't know much about them or which is the best.

You probably mean the HxC floppy emu. Well, in my case i don't consider it a "better solution" as you say, mainly for 2 reasons:
1) Floppy emu is NOT like having a hard disk or a cfcard. It's connected to the floppy controller of the amiga.And that means the actual reading speed of an adf image will be ~ the speed of a classic floppy drive,maybe a little faster than this, (because emu has no moving heads) but transfer rates will not be increased noticeably anyway.So , although with a floppy emu you can save the disk changing, it will NOT save you from the constant long waits of the slow drive reading, especially annoying in many multi disk adventures.
2) It's rather expensive. You need about 90euros in total to buy one (also i will need extra money for an sd card which i dont have). IMHO this is a little "too much" for just saving disk changing and a bulk of 3.5" disks (btw, i can still find 3.5" disks for ~30cents each ;) ) and besides, it's rather "heavy" for my pocket anyway...:rolleyes:

For the moment i'm trying to find some alternative  ramdrive device in aminet, maybe like statram. Unfortunately statram only plays on kick 2.04 and above ,so i cant use it.
 

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Re: Multiple RAD devices on AMIGA 500 with extra fast ram
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2012, 03:56:00 PM »
What about this one: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/RRamDisk
I think it's exactly what i need! It supports up to 32 units (!) which all can be recoverable and bootable according to the flag parameter it has.
Anyone tried it?

Also found this: http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/ASDG-rrd
This one also says that you can use it with rad: but i dont k now if it supports more than one ramdisks
Anyone  one try this too?  :-)
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