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From: wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari8
Subject: 256k Upgrade/DOS 2.5 Modification
Message-ID: <548@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Apr-86 11:58:14 EST
Article-I.D.: tekigm2.548
Posted: Tue Apr  1 11:58:14 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Apr-86 04:56:39 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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Well I did it, I went out and bought two of the RAMBO XL 256k upgrade
kits.  (My last posting called them the ??? brand as I forgot who they
were.)  RAMBO XL is put out by ICD, Inc. who also puts out SpartaDOS,
US Doubler, etc.  I chose them over the original BYTE kluge, the CDY
upgrade or the Newman upgrade only due to the ability to use them to
upgrade my old faithful 1200XL.  (Soon to be renamed the 1200XE, likewise
I will rename the 800XL to 800XE.)  I still do not like SpartaDOS and in
fact since it does not come with the kit, I will for now use Atari DOS
2.5.  RAMDOS XL will allow Atariwriter +, BASIC XE and other XE type
programs to see 130k RAM.  Until DOS 2.5m [2.6] comes out, I will have 
130k unuseable RAM.  Since RAMBO XL is fairly new, I will post any 
problems that I encounter when installing it.  The instructions that come 
with it are quite clear both for the 1200XL and for the 800XL.  They seem 
to have thought of everything including which ANTIC chip you have.  Is 
there anyone out there who has already installed RAMBO XL?  I do not know 
if the 130XE version of SynCalc will work -- the instructions only say that 
SynFile+ was checked.  PaperClip is also shown as working -- including the 
ability to see all 260k RAM.  Later....
--Bill--
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