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From: utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spirit 1.5 meg board?
Summary: Works fine for me...
Keywords: Memory expansion, A1000, Spirit Tech.
Message-ID: <7153@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 13:03:42 GMT
References: <3767@tank.uchicago.edu>
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <3767@tank.uchicago.edu>, arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer) writes:
> I am on the verge of ordering a Spirit Tech. 1.5meg board for an
> A1000.  I do not have a harddrive on my A1000, so I want the
> additional memory to put programs or the workbench disk in -
> presumably in Rad:.  I would appreciate it if anyone would who has a
> similiar setup would let me know if this memory board will do what I
> want and is a reliable product.  I know that there are some games that
> work only on un-expanded Amigas, but I don't have any so that is not a
> consideration.  (I did grap Nofast just in case.)
> 
> My A1000 right now is a plain vanilla one, with nothing added except the
> usual 256k board to provide 512k and one external(Commodore) floppy.
> 
Pat,
  I've been running exactly this setup for over 2 years now and
have never had a problem with it.  I have never encountered a
program that wouldn't run on it (of course sometimes I have to
run NoFastMem first -- AmigaBASIC programs jump to mind).  The
clock (mine has a clock) is very handy for a compiler environment
and All That Ram does wonders. 
  I'll just say this once: FaccII.
  I have a 1 Meg recoverable ram disk set up and compile out of
it.  I used to copy lots of stuff there until I got FaccII, now
I just leave my workbench boot disk in df0:.  I probably tried
a dozen different setups under 1.2 and several more when I got
1.3 -- adequate RAM will change your life (at least as far as
how you use you computer).  Enjoy the bytes...
> Pat Palmer (email: ppalmer@oddjob.uchicago.edu)


Todd M. Lewis, utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu, utoddl@ecsvax.bitnet
  To quote Eugene H. Spafford, "Crisis and Aftermath", Communications of
  the ACM, vol. 32, no. 6, (June 1989), p. 684:
  "It is curious that this many people [...] would assume to know the
   intent of the author based on the observed behavior of the program."