Speed up Test Drive II (was Re: Proboot5.1)

[jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)]

In article <20167@mindlink.bc.ca> Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher) writes:

[questions that I can't answer were deleted.]
>
>P.S. On a slightly related topic (ramdisks).. I was playing Test Drive 2
>which my friend brought over and getting fed up with the HUGE delays we
>decided to put it on the ram-disk, I made an 800k ram disk and copied it all
>over and renamed the ramdisk and tried quitting to the main executable and
>prodos more than once, both times it got part way into the load and said
>'memory fragmentation error' and something about being unable to repair it
>and then it would freeze. If I booted with a ram disk active at all (even
>with a different name) I would get the same error, does anyone have any ideas
>why?

The problem has to do with Test Drive II using some memory space that
is used by /Ram5.  It's just that, no way to get around that. (I don't
have the exact technical explaination, sorry :-)
However, if you want to speed up the booting/loading process of Test
Drive II, there was a "modified" AE-Cache CDA released by a pirate (gasp!)
group awhile back, and it dramatically reduced the disk-access time.
Since you do have the original game, and guess it would be okay for me
to mail you a copy of the CDA, provided that no one objects, and I am
not offending anyone's good sense of morality and ethics :-)

>(The ram disk was set to 1meg and 800k on the two occasions I tried this so
>there was memory left for TD2.)
>
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>Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca                 Land of the rising snow.


Jimmy

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