Re: Shadow Ram

[lecates@bach.udel.edu (Roy LeCates)]

In article <1993Jan19.170109.7755@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:
>I downloaded the program "Quest for the Hoard" from Pegsoft and tried
>to run the program.  I get an error message "No Shadow Ram" and the
>program will either abort or go ahead and run.  If the program runs,
>the cursor get a wipe area equal to the size of the cursor and whatever
>I pass the cursor over gets wiped out and replaced by what is on a back
>screen.
>
>My question is:Is this because my //gs has a ROM 01 chip in it?  Or is
>there something else I don't know about which is happening.  I have 4megs
>of memory on an AE GSRam card.

I own a ROM 01, and "Quest for the Hoard" runs fine.  Are you running
System 6?  If so, try holding down the <Shift> key upon startup to 
eliminate all INITS and DAs.  Then try running it.  Probably some INIT
is grabbing the shadow memory when it shouldn't.

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Roy M. LeCates       EE Undergraduate        lecates@bach.udel.edu
University of Delaware Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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