8 Mb CHIP RAM on All Amigas

[Tricky]

Piru wrote:
You say it is possible to write such "swap" program. I still think it's not very stable solution, various things can easily break it. Lets agree to disagree, shall we?

I don't even think we need to go as far as that.  You are exactly right, it wouldn't be fool proof, but it would be interesting to see if it could be done at all.  As I said, I'd have to write a lot of disclaimers in the readme!

I will hold my POV until you provide a working chipmem extender program. :-)

That's fair enough.  I have other things to write just now, but I'll write a memory tracker patch as a first step soon as I finish Mr Beanbag.

[xeron]

@Tricky

Basically, for your "4 banks of chipram" approach to work, you'd have to have 4 completely independant instances of AmigaOS running, 3 of which are suspended.

The problem I see with this, is DOS. Imagine if you swapped instances while someone was accessing the disk. In the new instance, you delete some files, maybe even files that were open on the other instance.

Whoops! You've just corrupted your hard disk.