alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) (10/11/88)
Er, does anyone have a resident for use with US/UK ROMS ? Here in germany, EVERYONE has such a RAM disk, but, they make dirty direct access to ROM. Result : Bombs everywhere !!! So, please, if there's anyone who has a resident RAM disk laying around PD, would you uuencode it and post it to comp.binaries.atari.st ? Thank you very much. -- alderaan OP RKOpdp (RSTS/E) FB Mathematik/Informatik RKO Berlin Dieffenbachstrasze 60-61 1000 Berlin 61 UNIX -- just say NO ! (remke)
apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) (10/15/88)
At the risk of starting flame wars, I'd like to address this issue: In article <1497@netmbx.UUCP> alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) writes: > Er, does anyone have a [reset-]resident [RAMdisk] for use with US/UK ROMS ? > > Here in germany, EVERYONE has such a RAM disk, but, they make dirty direct > access to ROM. Result : Bombs everywhere !!! It's too bad that all the reset-resident-RAMdisk authors in Germany are lazy. You really don't have to use illegal RAM/ROM locations for a reset-resident utility! I wish I knew what places they were using, so I could tell them how they could have accomplished the same thing legally. ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt
wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) (10/25/88)
In article <1497@netmbx.UUCP> alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) writes: > Er, does anyone have a [reset-]resident [RAMdisk] for use with US/UK ROMS ? > Here in germany, EVERYONE has such a RAM disk, but, they make dirty direct > access to ROM. Result : Bombs everywhere !!! Yep. The ram disk that comes with Mark Williams C compiler is a BOOTABLE ram disk; if you push the reset button and the ram disk was installed as bootable, the system boots off the ram disk. Source is included, all for only $179! You, of course, receive a free C compiler with the ram disk program :-). -- "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell "How come he didn't put `I think' at the end of it?" - James P. Hogan
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (10/27/88)
In article <235@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes: >Yep. The ram disk that comes with Mark Williams C compiler is a >BOOTABLE ram disk; if you push the reset button and the ram disk was >installed as bootable, the system boots off the ram disk. Source is >included, all for only $179! You, of course, receive a free C compiler >with the ram disk program :-). Yeah, I really like this program. Works on my Mega-4, too. It's slightly less useful with a hard drive, because the hard drive autoboot overrides the RAMdisk boot. (Why wait for disk accesses when you don't have to, eh?) It's also slightly confusing for me now when I disable the autoboot at the keyboard (to boot a game off a floppy, for example) and I get the RAMdisk boot instead. (Yeah yeah, just reconfigure the disk without boot enabled. It's not easy deciding what to preload into a 1.6meg ramdisk, though...) That's the feature I like most about this program, though - you can boot it preloaded with whatever directories and programs you want. Makes it that much faster to go from power-up to actually working with the system. -- / /_ , ,_. Howard Chu / /(_/(__ University of Michigan / Computing Center College of LS&A ' Unix Project Information Systems