Re: Help for new IIGS owner

[JB3819@JB3819.SBC.COM]

> > Bruce MacKay (root@crypt.org) wrote:
> Third question:  Is there some diagnostic I can run to test to make
> sure all of the RAM is OK?

If you mean, "Is there a built-in hardward diagnostic test for the 
add-in RAM?", then the answer is no.

If you mean, "Is there a program I can run to test memory?", then 
the answer is yes. It is called BitBanger and does what seems to 
be a good job of exercising the daylights out of a RAM card.  Reading
through the documentation that came with the program describes some 
errors it tests for that I didn't even know existed.  The only real 
problem with having a diagnostic program is you have to have the 
machine to a bootable state to begin with.

Since I'm silly enough to have mailed a diskette off to a fellow in 
Austrailia, email me an address and I'll slap another copy into the 
mail.  I got it in the A2 software library on GEnie.  If you have a 
GEnie account, look there.  You could download it to a Mac and put 
it on a ProDOS diskette.  I can't remember if it is a ProDOS or GS/OS
program, so I don't know for sure what you have to boot to run it.

Anyway... have fun with the "new" machine.

JABouchard ->-------