[net.micro.mac] Fade to Black and AP ramdisk bug

berry@tolerant.UUCP (David Berry) (01/30/86)

> Anybody else get it to work with AP ram disk?
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> Paul DuBois     {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--

	This may or may not have anything to do with your problem with
Fade to Black but, the AP ramdisk problem doesn't cooperate well with
other programs that allocate space by chopping off the end of the user
memory area and decrementing location $10c.  The problem is that the
AP ramdisk considers $10c to be the start of it's memory and thus the
RamDisk must be created after all other programs that attempt to use it
have been loaded.  This specifically applies to both TMon when loaded
in high memory and MacBooster.
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	David W. Berry
	{ucbvax,pyramid,idsvax,bene,oliveb}!tolerant!berry

	I'm only here for the beer.

blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) (02/03/86)

In article <260@tolerant.UUCP> berry@tolerant.UUCP (David Berry) writes:
|> Anybody else get it to work with AP ram disk?
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|> Paul DuBois     {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--
|
|	This may or may not have anything to do with your problem with
|Fade to Black but, the AP ramdisk problem doesn't cooperate well with
|other programs that allocate space by chopping off the end of the user
|memory area and decrementing location $10c.  The problem is that the
|AP ramdisk considers $10c to be the start of it's memory and thus the
|RamDisk must be created after all other programs that attempt to use it
|have been loaded.  This specifically applies to both TMon when loaded
|in high memory and MacBooster.

This is good to know, but it's not the problem with Fade to Black.  I'm
afraid I don't know what the problem is.  I've got Fade installed in the
System on my Macterminal disk, with an AP ramdisk.  It gets copied with the
system to the ramdisk, and seems to work fine.

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Brian L. Matthews
...{ihnp4!utzoo!mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!cxsea2!arrakis!blm