[comp.sys.amiga.hardware] Static ZIPS and NoFastMem

berenfie@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (gregory neil berenfield) (06/03/91)

	I just installed my 4 megs of 80ns, static column ZIPS and am having
trouble turning it off! Some programs I have (geared too older Amigas, games
of course) don't like fast memory and I have a "nofast" utility which
would reboot the machine, having no fast memory available. I originally
thought that the Ramsey chip didn't like the program trying to reconfigure
the static chips (since it used to work fine with the 1 meg of DIPS as
fast mem) but when I tried to use another program, "palcon" which is
supposed to reboot the machine into PAL mode, I became suspect. I'm pretty
sure that the Ramsey will now not allow programs to exist in the Cold Capture
vector area of memory since I believe both these programs use these areas. 
Since I'm not a developer, I don't have access to information concerning
this area of mem. on the A3000. Could someone please either leave me mail
on a program that will let me boot into nofastmem or show me code on how
I can do it? Please don't use any of the info in the 1.3 RKM's since I've
already tried that and the relevant section in "Amiga System Programmer's 
Guide" by Abacus. Thanks in advance!



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Greg Berenfield                                 The Ohio State University
berenfie@cis.ohio-state.edu                     Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci.
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