Re: 8x ZipChip and DHR: Anyone else having problems?

[phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>]

Supertimer wrote:

> I repeat, something else in Jay's system must be tripping
> up the Zip because I used a Zip 8Mhz while I had my IIe
> and it worked great with mouse based double hires stuff.
> In fact, I got the Zip expressly for using GEOS at an
> acceptable speed.
>
> I also used it with Publish-It! and Multiscribe IIe.  GEOS,
> Publish-It!, and Multiscribe IIe are all mouse based DHR
> programs.  All worked with the Zip.
>
> The Zip uses 8k of cache RAM to run cached and
> motherboard memory at different speeds.  For a
> computer that mainly used two 64k banks (128k),
> that was more than enough.  The Zip is designed to
> accelerate up to 2MB of RAM in the aux slot,
> meaning it'll attempt to cache segments in any of
> those memory banks.  Beyond 2MB, it will not
> cache data.

Any ideas?, If it was just the mouse or just the video it
might be easier to track down. It's probably something
simple like a bad or loose memory chip.

Obsbedia2:
Try the programs without the Zip and make sure they
work correctly.

Phoenyx