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From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
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Subject: Re: ASpice, contiguous ram
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Date: 25 Feb 90 17:05:25 GMT
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In article <9002240527.AA20615@jade.berkeley.edu> C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU ("Eric Edwards") writes [regarding ASpice]:
>Version 5.1 is on Fred Fish 278.  The executable is about 470k.  Unfortunatley
> a one meg machine without the super agnus never has the contiguous 470k that
>aspice requires.  This brings up a question of my own.  Does anyone know of a
>way to force the system structures to load into chip ram only?  My idea would
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>be to use one of those nofastmem type programs that survives a reboot, reset
>the system and then reenable fast ram.  Will this work?

PowerPacker can force Code, Data, and BSS into Chip or Fast RAM as far as I
remember correctly.  I got an ancient version of Hack to work that way when
it required Data and/or BSS in Chip.

Udo Schuermann