RAM DISK?

[mikeymike]

Win9x had a ramdisk driver but it's 4MB max storage.

[WarPiper]

@ amigamad

thanks for the link, I have loaded the one called AR Ram disk, so far its ok, I gotta get use to it.

Is a ram disk much use on a pc and i know there are free ram disks for the pc .

well, like what I used to use the amiga's ram disk for, unlha-ing (unzipping) I used to use the ram disk alot with dpaint and anything I needed a quick place to put something befor I made up my mind to keep it, but with the PC, I really want to have all my internet cach and cookies and temp files put there this way I dont have to worry about it being on the hard disk and havint to have to delete all that stuff.

I just wonder if its possable to do that using the ram drive.

with my system having 768Mb of ram, I alotted 127Mb for the ram drive.

now to find a cool amiga glow icon for the ram drive  :-)

[jeffimix]

The DOS setting had no limit IIRc I had 8/16MB for a while set on it in Windows 3.1... of course, you have to be able to do some math since it isn't in megabytes

[AmigaHeretic]

@WarPiper

and the fact the pc has out paced the Amiga in everything

Everything except for quick and easy Ram Disk support  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[WarPiper]

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[iamaboringperson]

When windows can get a decent amiga like ram disk, amgiaos and morphos are really dead :-P

[Lando]

amigaguy wrote:
@WarPiper

and the fact the pc has out paced the Amiga in everything

Everything except for quick and easy Ram Disk support  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

And boot times... and shutdown times.. and the ability to create custom screenmodes of any resolution / colour depth... and being able to mount / read different media or media from other from other platforms simply by installing a filesystem and / or writing a mountlist... and response to user input... and being able to run without using loads of system resources or thrashing the hard drive for minutes at a time... and multitasking... and configurability... and application launch times... and making the user feel like they're in control of the computer rather than the other way round... and a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember right now as I've been at work for almost 24h and am tired as f*** and want to go home to bed but I cant cos I still have 4 bugs left to fix... :-(

[DaBest]

Ram Disk  ? thanks for the link to the free one. I might not use it yet. I'll read a little more on how to use it. It is installed and I allocated 13 megs to it. :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  

[AmigaHeretic]

And boot times... and shutdown times.. and the ability to create custom screenmodes of any resolution / colour depth... and being able to mount / read different media or media from other from other platforms simply by installing a filesystem and / or writing a mountlist...

Don't forget double click to front

and

The ability to leave a window behind other windows, but still have the focus on that window in back (i.e. being able to type in a window without having it automatically pop to the front when you click on it).  What I wouldn't give to have this ability on Win2000 at work.

Just a couple of my favorite little Amiga features.

[Im>bE]

>THERE ARE ALOT OF PEOPLE HERE WHO OWN AND USE PC >FOR EVERYTHING, BUT STILL LOVE THE AMIGA,

like a marriage then...
You still love girls,
just not the one you do everything on.

>SO IF YOU DONT LIKE IT, LEAVE!

pc users are so aggressive...

probably because of the suppressed frustration
that builds up
when they -try- to use their 'computer'.

[JoannaK]

warpiper: For me biggest problem on Windowses is that they seem to
need more ram than there is.. so there is no room for any ram disk on
that machine. Perhaos If I had 2GB of ram win2k might leave some of it
empty but with 512Meg there is no point. :-(

[jeffimix]

I have 128 Megabytes on my system... running on the desktop Windows claims about 40 Megabytes are left 'free'. I may not like windows but some people are really annoying about what they act like Xp needs.  :-x   :-x   :-x

[Ferry]

None of both Ram Disks mentioned here for PC have the most important feature of the Amiga's Ram Disk: they are not dynamic, you have to assign how much memory you want to use, while in Amiga it assigns or frees automatically the memory it uses or doesn't use.

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[Im>bE]

I got -alot- of new spam on my email
after my previous post.


so its true that some ppl sign other ppl
they don't like, up for spam...

Thats very lame in my opinion,
but I guess I cannot do anything about it.

spam is an everyday pain in the ass anyway so...

[DanDude]

Still, I --really-- don't want to see any pc posting myself.  In fact our moderators should've stepped in and remove this entire thread, IMO.  It really is off topic and most likely should be placed in "Talk-About".  Windows and Apple sole tech-help have no purpose on this site unless you're installing them on your Amiga.

[amigamad]

Still, I --really-- don't want to see any pc posting myself. In fact our moderators should've stepped in and remove this entire thread, IMO. It really is off topic and most likely should be placed in "Talk-About". Windows and Apple sole tech-help have no purpose on this site unless you're installing them on your Amiga.

But most users are using pc,s so it is still relevant to ask pc and  Apple  questions .