A600 chip ram problem???????

[wangerman69]

Sorry to trouble you again but I am not sure whether I have a problem or not.

I have recently bought a stock box fresh A600 and have just installed the A604 memory card.

Should I expect to see the memory readout at around 1.9 to 2.0 meg now under workbench?

No amount of clearing the ram makes my registered memory go above 1.41 meg

Many thanks in advance for your replies

[ajk]

What kind of system do you have installed? With a plain Workbench without any other tools, and a regular screenmode, most memory should be free.

Maybe try booting with no startup-sequence (press both mouse buttons down during boot and select that option in the menu that comes up) and then only run "loadwb" and see what is available then.

[Arnie]

Try booting from a Workbench disk. If the memory available is higher than 1.41 then something in the Startup-Sequence or WBStartup is eating ram. If it's the same then either the Amiga or the A604 card is faulty.

Edit: ajk beat me to it.

[zipper]

Use <Avail> command!

[wangerman69]

Hello Guys

Thank you all for your replies, without the card installed the Amiga shows around 0.4mb Chip ram.

I am running WB 2.05 and the first screen says green amiga alien addiction before loading the wb screen.

The WB was installed onto my CF when I bought the card and I amvery new to this

I have no idea what "Green Amiga Alien addiction" is or how to turn it off.

I bought one of those 4gb cards with WHD Load and games on from from Ebay

Forgive me this is my first Commodore machine so am in the dark

[duga]

1.4 MB minus 1 MB is 0.4 MB. That means everything is working as expected.

[wangerman69]

SYSINFO seems to show I have 2mb installed so I guess something is eating 512k of memory?.

Would a fresh install of workbench help ?

And if so is it worth buying a 3.1 chip and upgrading to workbench 3.1?

If I do this will it erase my drive and lose my games and Whd Load or is there a way to transfer these to my pc Winuae?????????


Sorry too many questions

[wangerman69]

Originally Posted by duga

1.4 MB minus 1 MB is 0.4 MB. That means everything is working as expected.

Sorry I thought an A600 had 1mb base memory ?????

[duga]

Exactly.

A600 = 1 MB
A604 = 1 MB
= a total of 2 MB.

You are using about 0.6 MB when you load your Workbench.

[wangerman69]

Originally Posted by duga

Exactly.

A600 = 1 MB
A604 = 1 MB
= a total of 2 MB.

You are using about 0.6 MB when you load your Workbench.

Oh ok so this is normal then many thanks for your help

I didn't realize the OS was loaded in to ram

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by wangerman69

Sorry I thought an A600 had 1mb base memory ?????

It does, The OS eats it when loading.

[wangerman69]

I would still love to know what a green alien addiction is mind

[roy bates]

if your loading from harddisk try changing the amount of colours on screen to around 4-8 in screenmode.

my wifes A600 has 2mb of chipram and 4mb of fastram.so its a bit different.

[jimbob]

Sounds like the CF card you bought has a classicWB pack installed. See here for more details -

http://classicwb.abime.net/

The green amiga alien edition is in the 68K section. These packs all load various things on start up so yes it is normal for a chunk of RAM to be used on boot. As zipper says, the shell command avail will gives details of total and used memory.

[wangerman69]

Originally Posted by jimbob

Sounds like the CF card you bought has a classicWB pack installed. See here for more details -

http://classicwb.abime.net/

The green amiga alien edition is in the 68K section. These packs all load various things on start up so yes it is normal for a chunk of RAM to be used on boot. As zipper says, the shell command avail will gives details of total and used memory.

Jimbob you genius that is spot on

I now know what green snot edition is, I assume it is just a skin over the original os

Now how to get rid of it

[wangerman69]

Done a bit of research RIP creator did not mean to cause offence

[jimbob]

The classicWB packs are great, you probably want to keep it. If it's just the colours that bother you, go into system->prefs->palette. Select the box with the colour you don't like and move the RGB sliders till you find a colour you like. Click save, fixed, and all other classicWB goodness intact.

[wangerman69]

Cheers good sir

I cannot thank you enough