Turn Slowmem Off at Boot?

Photon · 28 November 2006, 14:59

I revived the good old SCX-Boot and I thought I'd update it. It's one of those handy utility boots that allows you to toggle extra drives and slowmem for backwards (read Old Demo

) compatibility.

It has ugly code to turn a standard slowmem expansion off. Do you guys have a more correct and byte-conscious routine to turn it off that works for 1.2, 1.3 and at least upto kick 2.0?

Mad-Matt · 28 November 2006, 21:14

If your using workbench there a command called NoFastMem in the system folder which will unallocate allt he slow mem. im sure theres also various degraders on aminet to download to disable other aspects too .

Photon · 29 November 2006, 01:30

Thanks matt, but I said I'm doing a bootblock, so it needs to be done at boot time. Will take a look at those degraders, but I have a hunch they're not for OCS/ECS machines, and not very byte-conscious

It would be nice to have all the space in the world, but I need to do it in 86 bytes or less... a hard job, but I like challenges

Any tips, or where to find exec.library structure descriptions for Kick 2.0?

28 November 2006, 14:59	#1
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	Turn Slowmem Off at Boot? I revived the good old SCX-Boot and I thought I'd update it. It's one of those handy utility boots that allows you to toggle extra drives and slowmem for backwards (read Old Demo ) compatibility. It has ugly code to turn a standard slowmem expansion off. Do you guys have a more correct and byte-conscious routine to turn it off that works for 1.2, 1.3 and at least upto kick 2.0?

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28 November 2006, 21:14	#2
Mad-Matt Longplayer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Lincoln / UK Age: 44 Posts: 1,846	If your using workbench there a command called NoFastMem in the system folder which will unallocate allt he slow mem. im sure theres also various degraders on aminet to download to disable other aspects too .

29 November 2006, 01:30	#3
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	Thanks matt, but I said I'm doing a bootblock, so it needs to be done at boot time. Will take a look at those degraders, but I have a hunch they're not for OCS/ECS machines, and not very byte-conscious It would be nice to have all the space in the world, but I need to do it in 86 bytes or less... a hard job, but I like challenges Any tips, or where to find exec.library structure descriptions for Kick 2.0?

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