Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!tank!eecae!cps3xx!usenet From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: 256k related questions Keywords: 256K, video output and software Message-ID: <4585@cps3xx.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 89 17:04:28 GMT References: Reply-To: conklin@frith.UUCP (Terry Conklin) Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing Lines: 39 You should not see any video difference between your XL and your XL with an upgrade, at least not from the upgrade. The only real way to check is pull the upgrade, but as a long time owner of a 256K upgrade and installer of many others, it's never been a problem. Some packages that support the upgrade are: Anything that runs on a 130XE, (ignoring a backpage video demo from Antic) as a 128K machine: A large selection of ramdisk software Typesetter 256, a PD bitmap typesetter Paperclip 2.0. It would give 128K as an editing buffer, and when you used the spell checker, it copies the dictionary into the other 128K so subsequent checks are fast. Various disk copy routines. I can't remember which off the top of my head. The new MTOS, I believe, is supposed to support extended memory pages. There are various other titles that will suprise you when they suddenly have more memory than you remembered. For exploring your extended memory upgrade (or making one,) my Detroit BBS, The Club II, has an archive of all the extended memory software I've ever seen, much of it with source code. Some of it is very old software, like BASIC code just to switch banks to see if they're there, but it allows you to "follow" the progress of extended memory Atari history. The Club II is at 313-334-8877 (and obviously has a lot of other 8bit stuff.) Terry Conklin uunet!frith!conklin The Club (517) 372-3131 conklin@egr.msu.edu aren't mailers fun?