Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!dg2l+ From: dg2l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas Phillip Ghormley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ChipRAM Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 88 16:47:18 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: <170@laic.UUCP> In article <170@laic.UUCP>, darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes: >In article <4WA4qxy00V4E09s0Sb@andrew.cmu.edu>, dg2l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas Phillip >Ghormley) writes: >> There was a letter printed in a recent AmigaWorld in which some dissatisfied >> customer complained of purchasing a few of the older Electronic Arts games, >> only to find that they wouldn't work with extended ram. My first question is >> this: which games won't work? Does anybody have a convenient list? >> (Specifically, Adventure Construciton, Archon, and Archon II: Adept.) >> Secondly, running NoFastMem should (should?! may...) fix the problem, >> correct? But will that work on the A2000 in which the 1Mbyte comes installed >> and isn't really "extended"? .... >The list of culprits that I remember are: > Archon II - sound, graphics ok, pieces don't show up (except as static) > FireFox - needed 1.1 also... > Hacker, and some other games by same company Nooooooo!!!!!!! Please say its not true!!! Do any of you Amiga-gurus out there know of any way around this? Is there *any* way to fill up (or shut off) the fast RAM and then load the bookblock? (For instance, IBM's have this neat command to load the boot strap and run it, so you can stuff a program in high memory and then essentially boot off a disk--anything comperable on the Amiga?) I'm not sure of what all happens inside the Amiga when you boot, but is it feasable to load and execute the bootblock manually? Please, please help me! Please!! Aaaaaahhhhh!!!!!! [PANIC mode on....] -Doug Ghormley (dg2l+@andrew.cmu.edu) ["That's funny, I don't remember having amnesia...." -John Ginsburg]