My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?

[djos]

Kipper mailed it to me last week

As you say worth a try, fun to experiment anyway.

[AmmoJammo]

As is, I have 1meg chip, 1.5meg "fast" ram....

because 1meg of the fast ram is in the A590, workbench uses that first, and lives me with almost a whole meg of chip ram free...

I can add another 1 meg to the A590 scsi controller, if I can find some suitable... which may be all I need to get things working right

[djos]

2mb fast ram is usually enuf for WHDLoad iirc.

[Lurch]

I found I couldn't get anything to run without 2MB chip RAM. Had 2MB Fast on the A590 which was enough to play most games.

Although when I added the 8MB I had more sound in IK+, but no sound with the shield and balls/heads.

When I added the Harms card I had all the sound in IK+ Just one game I noticed some changes on.

[djos]

I'm running 1mb chip ATM with 8mb non-auto config fast ram which means about 500k chip ram gets wasted by ClassicWB and most games still work in whdload.

[Lurch]

I'm running 1mb chip ATM with 8mb non-auto config fast ram which means about 500k chip ram gets wasted by ClassicWB and most games still work in whdload.

Can't get it to work with only 1MB chip RAM, have 900k left over once ClassicWB loads, but always get not enough chip RAM to load.

If I use tiny launcher or x bench (I think it's called) 5 out of 10 games will load.

On the 500 plus no such drama's, 1.7MB chip available and it works great.

[AmmoJammo]

got fastmemfirst in your startup sequence?

[djos]

got fastmemfirst in your startup sequence?

That's not a valid command in WB3.1

[AmmoJammo]

That's not a valid command in WB3.1

that's why you copy it from the WB1.3 disc... I was suggesting it to Lurch anyway, as he seems to be running out of chip ram.

It would seem that my HDD/SCSI controller is incredibly slow!

[djos]

Hmm, I might try that.

That's not too bad, my cf-IDE isnt much faster @ 580,000 bytes per second.

[Lurch]

that's why you copy it from the WB1.3 disc... I was suggesting it to Lurch anyway, as he seems to be running out of chip ram.

It would seem that my HDD/SCSI controller is incredibly slow!

Will give that go :-) Have been playing with Fblit as well, thats pretty good :-)


Must check how fast my cf-card is reading now that you've brought that up.

[AmmoJammo]

Sysinfo gives me totally nonsense results for SCSI speed... someone suggested I use this:

http://aminet.net/package/util/moni/RSCP

Which gives considerably more realistic results.

[zipper]

If you want more precise results, use http://main.aminet.net/pub/aminet/disk/moni/DiskSpeed42.lha

[djos]

what do folks use for stress testing chip & fast ram?

[AmmoJammo]

what do folks use for stress testing chip & fast ram?

I play games... then when it crashes, I don't know why :smack:

P.S. I have 900+k of chip memory spare once WB has loaded
I am however lacking fast memory... :/

[djos]

Are you using classicWB or plain wb3.1?