blgardne@esunix.UUCP (02/16/87)
Well, I am VERY impressed! I've had my ASDG 2 meg expansion & Mini-Rack
C about a week now. The extra memory is fantastic, but what prompts this
posting is the RRD software.
I've been doing a lot of fooling around with the extra memory and VD0:,
just to see what can be done. I doubt that ASDG guarantees the
following, but for what it's worth.....
I was trying some of the old demos under 1.2, and a few won't work.
Rather than shut down the Amiga to load 1.1, I decided to try
ChangeKickstart, which showed up on a local BBS recently.
ChangeKickstart allows you to do just that: change from 1.2 to 1.1 or
vice versa. You just click on the icon, the screen goes nuts, then do a
ctrl-A-A, and slap in the Kickstart disk you desire.
Well after fooling around with 1.1 for a while, I used ChangeKickstart
again to reload 1.2. I was very surprised when my VD0: was still there
when my 1.2 Workbench disk booted up! Now THAT is what I call
recoverable! Not just a reset, but 2 restarts with different Kickstarts
were completely survived.
Since my 1.1 Workbench isn't setup to use the external memory, I don't
know what effect accessing VD0: from 1.1 would have on the ability to
recover VD0: when returning to 1.2.
Sorry if I sound like an ad for ASDG, but that RRD (Recoverable Ram Disk
for new readers) is something else! Perry, any comments about the
relibility of recovering VD0: when switching kickstarts?
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