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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Freememory map doesn't work with A500
Message-ID: <2313@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 11:54:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2313
Posted: Fri Sep 11 11:54:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 19:26:49 EDT
References: <1682@crash.CTS.COM> <3927@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3927@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <1682@crash.CTS.COM> billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp) writes:
>>Anyone know why the free-memory map on the extras disk doesn't work
>>with the A501 memory expansion installed in an A500??  [ ... ]
>
>	'Freemap' doesn't work with memory beyond 512K, and never did.  If
>you look at the source (which exists on an early Fish Disk), there's a
>comment in there from -=RJ=- saying that he did icky but clever things to
>make it work, but it would fail in a large way if run with expanded memory.
>
When I put it in the Extras disk (because I thought it was cute) it was
a last minute decision...so I opted to just check for the existence
of fast memory, rather than decode RJ's logic. (I was rushed)  I've since
gone back and fixed it (all it turned out to be was that the program really
had no idea of how to traverse memory headers; I was scared off my RJ's
comments in the source too :-)  Anyway, I've fixed it a bit, and
cleaned it up a bit, and will be putting it on the Software Toolkit,
but will be happy to send it comp.amiga.binary.  Its a fun toy, anyway.

[Hey Leo, why don't you expand your signature ?  That bike looks wimpy :-)
 (if popular demand works one way, why not the other ?  :-)   )

>Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape	ihnp4!ptsfa -\
> \_ -_	 Bike shrunk by popular demand,	      dual ---> !{well,unicom}!ewhac
>O----^o	 But it's still the only way to fly.  hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack")

See what I mean ?

			andy
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