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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Expanded Chip Ram?
Message-ID: <8802210005.AA08765@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 88 00:05:27 GMT
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	You can't expand CHIP ram.  The problem is not the limited
CHIP ram, but badly written programs which do not double buffer data
loading into CHIP ram..  I mean, think of it!  If you use two 16K
buffers, you would have nearly a second to fill a buffer from FAST
mem while the other one is playing...  How long does it take to copy
16K??  try about 14ms .. even less (round figures).


			-Matt

:I'm using a stock Amiga 1000 with the 2 meg starboard expansion,
:for a total of 2.5 megs. I've found that all that extra memory
:is pretty much useless with digitized sound, since it has to
:be in chip ram to be played.(right?) Anyway the largest sample I
:can get is a measly 360k!! Is there any way to expand the chip ram?
:I heard that one of the kickstart eliminators does this, is it true?
:I doubt it is true, so I am wondering is there a way to pipe the
:sound data from an external source such as expanded ram, or a hard
:disk, and THROUGH the chip ram, thus allowing for huge length samples.
:I am almost sure that can be acomplished, but before I go nuts trying
:to write a utility like that, Id like to know if anyone has already
:written something to do that.
: 
: Anyone?