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From: iokraupa@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ingo Kraupa )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Two Questions
Message-ID: <3370@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 13 Dec 90 13:00:14 GMT
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Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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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 :-)

gruPt Hugi