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From: darrinm@cabezon.uucp (Darrin Mossor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: POWERMONGER: Are we buying release 0.90 ?READ
Summary: Need NoFast Utility
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.193025.12016@cabezon.uucp>
Date: 24 Jan 91 19:30:25 GMT
References: <9522@lmrc.uucp> <54391@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <459@tlvx.UUCP>
Organization: Logic Automation
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In a previous article sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) writes:
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> Strange thing, PM wouldn't run on a friend's new A500 with 1 meg of RAM.  (He
> also may have had a new Agnus; I forgot to run a check on his system to
> find out.)  After using "nofast" (the nice utility which reboots the machine
> with 512K showing in the system), it ran fine.  Note that if I didn't
> happen to have "nofast", we simply wouldn't have been able to run it, since
> PM has a custom boot-block and takes over the machine;  Nofastmem comes with
> the OS, but of course that won't work.  Aggravating! (Especially since the
> first time I visited I didn't have "nofast" with me.  Grr!)
                              
and again
...
> Recently, I picked up Treasure Trap, partially because of it being mentioned
> here, and partially because it was on sale.  Guess what?  Wouldn't run on
> my machine.  It's self-booting and takes over the whole machine, and so you
> can't use things like "nofastmem";  I had that "nofast" program which gives
> you 512K upon reboot.  It worked.  

  I seem to be having the same problem on my A500, 3Meg Ram, SuperFatAgnus
installed by my local Amiga store.  I have looked on my local BBSs and on
ab20.larc.nasa.gov  for this "nofast" utility and I can't find it anywhere!  
Could some kind soul either post it (if its small) or put it up on an FTP 
site that allows anonymous FTP (which I have access to via MailFTP) or email 
it to me?

  I would love to see PowerMonger on my machine.  Works great on my friends
stock A500.  It boggles the mind that these kinds of kludges are necessary
to run such an otherwise impressive game.

    Darrin Mossor                      |
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