Re: How well do you like your RamFast card?

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

ncp@gnh-starport.UUCP writes:

>I found
>that some 3200 color pics don't display well or not without a lot of banding
>with the RamFAST in the system.

  I can guarantee that the RamFAST has nothing whatsoever to do with 3200
pictures banding- 3200s band a lot as it is, due to how they're created.

>faster disk access, all by (at least with the TWGS) changing the IRQ swtich in
>the TWGS control panel.  Are you listening Sequential (Jawaid, others)? :)

  The RamFAST doesn't use interrupts; the RamFAST does DMA in large
blocks, which can shut out interrupts.
  The problem with the TWGS is bad design on the part of the TWGS, and
a bit of overengineering on the part of the RamFAST.

>Also, does anyone know what's different about the 3.01c ROM?  I've had some
>mysterious crashes, and I'm hoping that 3.01c will fix some tragic bug from
>3.01b.

  3.01b had some problems, but I don't recall any of them being crashing
bugs. What situation does this happen in?  More likely than not it's
some INIT or DA you've got installed.

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