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From: spierce@pnet01.cts.com (Stuart Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Switch to disable FastRAM needed (or Archon fix)
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Date: 1 Aug 90 06:36:02 GMT
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Electronic Arts has no plans to update Archon, Archon 2, 7 Cities of Gold,
etc.  I don't believe that Archon runs under Kickstart 1.2 no matter how much
memory is present.  I have tried patching Archon with a program that modifies
the boot track on early EA games so that fast memory is turned off, but it
didn't help.  There is also a program called NoFast that reboots your Amiga
with all fast RAM turned off.
If you had a MMU in your machine, you might be able to put Kickstart 1.1 into
memory and boot your machine with that, but who knows whether Archon is
compatible with 68020/68030 processors?  I have a half-dozen games that no
longer work with my 3 MB RAM, Super Agnus, Kickstart 1.3-equipped Amiga 2000,
and I anticipate more dying after I upgrade to AmigaDOS 2.0.
I wish someone would come up with an Amiga board with memory to load alternate
Kickstart versions.  Upon power up, it would check to see if a Kickstart disk
is in either floppy drive.  If not, it would use the ROMs and auto-configure
the memory on the board as Fast RAM.  If so, it would load Kickstart from the
disk and write-protect it.  It should be able to preserve the Kickstart
through any number or warm boots.  It should have 256K RAM and be expandable
to at least 512K RAM.
                                                   Stuart W. Pierce