Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!schein
From: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Recoverable Ram Disks
Message-ID: <3004@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 14:43:17 GMT
References: <2189@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2189@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) writes:
>>
>>  I have been using the VDK: program for several weeks now, and it has worked
>> EXTREMELY well. This program is much easier to use and much easier to install
>> than the ASDG VD0: program. VDK: works like the original RAM: in that it only
>> uses memory as needed (IE: its always 100% full), and it was designed *NOT*
>> to use C00000 memory. This means it works on ALL Amigas regardless of the
>> type and amout of memory. I have FileZaped, EDited, ARCed, Compiled, and
>> almost anything else you can do to abuse a RRD - with not one problem at all.
>> If you have memory to burn, you can have multiple VDK's and really have fun :-)
>
>        I'm using VDK:.   Have been contantly for about 5 months.  
>
       Are you using the FINAL released version (1.0)? VDK was pirated
       early during its development stages and most people I speak with
       were/are not aware of this. (They also are not using the released
       version)

>        VDK: has bugs!  If you meet the Guru, and you have not been
>           very carefull memory wise, its COLDSTART time!  It also
>           is not safe with all commercial software.
>
        Hmmmm... Due to some out of the (cough!) unusual programs I write,
	The GURU and I have become very close friends :-) I can not say
	that I have ever lost any files with VDK. - I have heard a few
	rumors that some commercial programs will not work with VDK, but
	no one has been able to name any. (The question comes up again,
	Beta or Release?) Im not sure just what you mean by "carefull
	memory wise" - I use it on a 5meg and a 3meg machine and im very
	sloppy with leaving unneeded programs and crashed tasks just
	laying around.

>        I've been intending to switch to VD0: for a while now.  It
>           is more reliable and VDK: imposes a rather long delay
>           as it checks the RAM on a WARM-RESET.  But I've gotten
>           used to vdk: and its eccentricities, and it is a good
>           test for mem. probs in my code.  If they won't WARM-START
>           with vdk:, they are not clean enough for release.
>
>                                                        Thanks,
>
>                                                                Wade.


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