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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Two Questions
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Date: 13 Dec 90 16:26:11 GMT
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In article <3370@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, iokraupa@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ingo Kraupa ) writes:
> i0046145@WATER.FIT.QUT.EDU.AU (Lukacz Alex) writes:
> 
>>2) Has anyone managed to get WB2.0/2.1 running on anything other than the A3000?   If so, can you give details of minimum configurations, memory etc.  I am
>>   fairly sure you would need at least 2 meg, but I'm not sure what else.
> 
> If you want to have best feelings (just like you baught a plain A1000 w/ 256K)
> 2.0 is really great to use with only 1Meg of memory. My very old 512K expansion
> (which is a hack at all, 64 static rams...) in my very old amiga exactly
> fits kickstart 2.0 memory needs.
> Just don't mount your 200000 memory (mine is not autoconfig either), and do
> a little patch to the zkick-program. To use zkick correctly, you must have
> 200000 autoconfig memory >>1Meg. The way zkick handles loading the kickstart
> without breaking the system is the following: zkick allocates as much 64K
> large buffers as it needs to fit a 512K kickstart, but any buffer even
> partially located in the lowest 512K of mem is marked as bad and freed
> afterwords. Thats why you need even more than 1meg of memory.
> 
> If your system doesn't know about your 200000 memory, you can load the
> kickstart straight on. fread(0x200000,1,524288,stream)... ouch...
> Then you have to remove the copy-blocks-to-200000-stuff; that's it. If
> anyone is interested I can send the (small) diffs. But I don't think
> it makes much sense to work with about 260K of remaining memory (at my
> low-end startup). It's just that you can say: it works. And then, removing
> your second 256K chip mem, you can truly say there's noone out in the world
> running 2.0 with less memory than you (no, I haven't tried :-)
> 

So much for non-disclosure agreements....

> gruPt Hugi

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