Re: Vulcan HD/PS???? & 8MB GS RAM cards

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Adrian Whichello <adrianw@cassius.ee.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

> The only "problem" I've noticed is that using the memory as a big RAM disk
> (eg 2048K) won't allow me to boot from the RAM disk - it seems the RAM
> disk HAS to be 800K to allow the machine to boot, otherwise you get the
> sliding apple.

Nope.  I've booted from unusually sized RAM disks.  The only requirement
is that you erase the disk before installing the system software onto
it.

If you set up the RAM disk by doing a disk copy from an 800K system
disk, then your RAM disk will also have to be 800K.

> ps Been playing with KEGS on my Linux box. Pretty good!. I notice the bug
> in the Pascal FST is still there (wrong interpretation of the DLE space
> compression at the beginning of each line), so it's not just my IIgs at
> home...

The Pascal FST has an FST-specific call which sets whether DLE expansion
is performed.  This would have to be off normally (so that arbitrary
file copy programs don't stuff up the file), but I don't know of any
programs that support turning it on.

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