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Offline mark443Topic starter

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How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« on: May 23, 2011, 05:42:32 AM »
Hi am a new member, the problem i have is am trying to tranfer adf files from my pc two the amiga 600, but it fails saying the ram disk is full i thought the 600 came with 1mb as standard,have used amiga 500plus the same way with no problems could the a600 memory be defective or something else :confused:
 
My A600 is just standard no memory upgrade when i load workbench nothing else memory reeds 760200 graphics mem 0 other mem is this normal ?
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 05:47:50 AM »
Quote from: mark443;639618
Hi am a new member, the problem i have is am trying to tranfer adf files from my pc two the amiga 600, but it fails saying the ram  disk is full i thought the 600 came with 1mb as standard,have used amiga 500plus the same way with no problems could the a600 memory be defective or something else :confused:
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it should come with a megabyte to my knowledge.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 05:51:41 AM »
Do you have other programs running? If you have a harddisk or more than one diskdrive, then you have less memory.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 05:57:48 AM »
Hi no hard drive yet bought a 4gb cf card but can not fit it yet my kickstart is 37.299 just waiting for 37.300 to come through the post nothing else running just the workbench disk sorry tell a lie useing amiga explorer to transfer adf files over two the A600.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 07:34:37 AM »
Boot it without startup-sequence and start amiga explorer from the cli.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2011, 07:44:19 AM »
A stock A600 comes with only 1mb of RAM.  I have an A603 RAM expansion board for sale cheap, if you are interested send me a PMail here.  Otherwise there is a new version named the A604 that will be released in June (hence my reason for wanting to sell my A603 memory expansion board).

It will give your A600 a total of 2mb of Chip RAM, instead of the stock 1mb and it fits into the trap door slot below your A600.

It will be tough to transfer files to your A600 before you get a hard drive or compact flash drive set up and working.  Specially with only the stock 1mb of RAM.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2011, 08:00:05 AM »
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Boot it without startup-sequence and start amiga explorer from the cli.
Hi thank's for the info sorry if i sound abit stupid it's my first amiga for over 15 years abit rusty lol how do i start up without a startup-sequence.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2011, 08:02:03 AM »
To continue:
Amiga 600 can be upgraded to max 2mb of chip ram (as with amigadaves A603)
Then you can also add fast ram either thru the pcmica slot on the left side or with accellerator added ram.

All amigas do better with 2mb of chip ram and some (prefer 4mb) of fast ram.
The 600 with a hard drive (or cf card) and chip and fast mem will perform quite well.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2011, 08:04:37 AM »
Hold down both mouse buttons at power up. You'll see a boot without startup requester at the bottom of the boot items screen.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2011, 08:06:09 AM »
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A stock A600 comes with only 1mb of RAM.  I have an A603 RAM expansion board for sale cheap, if you are interested send me a PMail here.  Otherwise there is a new version named the A604 that will be released in June (hence my reason for wanting to sell my A603 memory expansion board).

It will give your A600 a total of 2mb of Chip RAM, instead of the stock 1mb and it fits into the trap door slot below your A600.

It will be tough to transfer files to your A600 before you get a hard drive or compact flash drive set up and working.  Specially with only the stock 1mb of RAM.
Hi thank's for the info have got the 4gb cf card just waiting for the new kickstart rom two arrive, i just find it odd that it runs out of memory when the A500plus can transfer the adf's no problem with the same 1meg of memory
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ps i will pm you for a price on the a603
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2011, 08:07:22 AM »
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Hold down both mouse buttons at power up. You'll see a boot without startup requester at the bottom of the boot items screen.
Ok will try thank's for your help :)
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Offline SACC-guy

Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2011, 08:21:50 AM »
The 500 had 512 chip ram and 512 fast ram.
The 600 only has 1mb of chip ram. NO fast ram...that's why it runs out.

Amigas really need both chip and fast mem.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2011, 08:27:44 AM »
Ok that would explain the running out of memory, feel kind of stupid now.
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2011, 08:39:38 AM »
Happens to all of us...

Just two days ago thegoose was telling me to go to school for a basic computing class...(grin)
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Re: How much chipram should amiga 600 have
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2011, 08:41:54 AM »
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The 500 had 512 chip ram and 512 fast ram.
The 600 only has 1mb of chip ram. NO fast ram...that's why it runs out.

Amigas really need both chip and fast mem.


I hope this was a joke - or maybe I haven't understood the fine trolling humor of Amiga.org yet.
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