How much chipram should amiga 600 have

[jakov]

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.

[carls]

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 ?
Kind Regards
Mark

If you have 1 MB of RAM, then transferring a flopppy image to the RAM disk isn't very wise. It has nothing to do with the chipmem/fastmem configuration, it's simply that the disk image is too big to fit in the available RAM.

You have around 740 kB of free memory after booting, and an ADF file is almost always bigger than that, hence it won't fit.

On the other hand, upgrading your RAM to 2MB will let you download the file to the RAM disk and then transfer it to your CF card. Chip or fast doesn't matter as long as you have a free continous block of memory the size of the ADF file, which you should get with a 1MB RAM expansion.

You say that you have a 4GB CF card in your A600. Transfer the ADF files to a directory on this card instead of to the RAM disk.

[Jiffy]

The 500 had 512 chip ram and 512 fast ram.

Unfortunately, you failed to notice TS was talking about an A500+ (plus), which, like the A600, has 1 MB chip mem as standard. Through the trap door, it can be expanded to 2 MB chip mem max, just like the A600.

Apart from that, the standard A500 (without the '+') only has 512 KB chip mem and no fast ram at all. Through the trap door, it can be expanded to 512 KB chip and 512 KB fast (well...) mem ór to 1 MB chip mem.

There's not much technological difference (if any) between an A600 and an A500+, apart from the pcmcia and on board ide-ports.

Amigas really need both chip and fast mem.

No, it does not. Any Amiga runs perfectly well without fast ram, although extra fast ram makes it a nicer experience. And yes, there are programs which need fast ram, but for most programs it is just optional. Highly recommended to have some fast ram (4 MB will do nicely in  most cases), though.

[mark443]

Unfortunately, you failed to notice TS was talking about an A500+ (plus), which, like the A600, has 1 MB chip mem as standard. Through the trap door, it can be expanded to 2 MB chip mem max, just like the A600.

Apart from that, the standard A500 (without the '+') only has 512 KB chip mem and no fast ram at all. Through the trap door, it can be expanded to 512 KB chip and 512 KB fast (well...) mem ór to 1 MB chip mem.

There's not much technological difference (if any) between an A600 and an A500+, apart from the pcmcia and on board ide-ports.


No, it does not. Any Amiga runs perfectly well without fast ram, although extra fast ram makes it a nicer experience. And yes, there are programs which need fast ram, but for most programs it is just optional. Highly recommended to have some fast ram (4 MB will do nicely in  most cases), though.

Hi thank's for the reply's that's what i thought the A500+ and the A600 are very similar in memory it's like i said i can transfer adf's two the A500+ but not the A600 unless the A600 users more memory to boot the workbench disk i really dont know,i just thought there was something wrong with the A600's memory

[psxphill]

Hi thank's for the reply's that's what i thought the A500+ and the A600 are very similar in memory it's like i said i can transfer adf's two the A500+ but not the A600 unless the A600 users more memory to boot the workbench disk i really dont know,i just thought there was something wrong with the A600's memory

No, you're just using too much of it already. If you're booting the two amiga's off the same bootdisk then the difference could be due to extra hardware in the 600 using more memory.
 
Either the IDE or the PCMCIA slot drivers could be using ram, even though they haven't got anything plugged into them. Also having extra floppy disk drives uses more ram.

[mark443]

No, you're just using too much of it already. If you're booting the two amiga's off the same bootdisk then the difference could be due to extra hardware in the 600 using more memory.
 
Either the IDE or the PCMCIA slot drivers could be using ram, even though they haven't got anything plugged into them. Also having extra floppy disk drives uses more ram.

Ok thank's for the info, i just thought there was something wrong with the A600