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From: judd@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Steve Judd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Switch to disable FastRAM needed (or Archon fix)
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Date: 30 Jul 90 19:00:37 GMT
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This has undoubtably been asked before, BUT...

	Can somebody please tell me how to make a switch to enable/disable
FastRAM?  The system is: A500, old Agnus, SupraRAM 512K (a501 clone).
	The only reason I ask is that I found a copy of Archon (You know...
a REAL computer game, like MULE, BeachHead, and Lazarian) at a software sale
a while back, and it can't deal with the expansion memory - The bobs won't
work (the playing pieces are invisible.  This makes for very interesting
combat, because the computer can't detect any object collisions, so the two
guys never hit each other!)  The software is very much protected with a
custom boot block and an unreadable (empty) directory.
	So, basically I am looking for three things:
	1) Has an updated version of Archon been released that can handle
	   expansion memory?
	2) Does anybody have a software patch for Archon?
	3) Can somebody explain to me how to build an external switch for my
	   RAM card?

	My current solution is to remove the card; a little too risky for
my tastes.  I'm somewhat partial to #3 above, because I hate modifying
somebody else's code when they asked me not to, and I doubt that EA bothered
with #1.

					-Steve

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