Why do some games come up with this...???

[spannernick]

Well I run a game and I have 2mb PCMICA card in the slot,but it still says "Can't allocate ShadowMem" or "Can't allocate ExpMem"

Why is that..??

[Foul]

PCMCIA is "Chipmem" .. And some games need "Fastmem"...

So best way to play is to buy a real Fastmem Board no need cpu, just 2Meg FastRam will be enough

[AndyLandy]

PCMCIA is definitely FastRAM, not ChipRAM. (Not that it's terribly fast FastRAM, but still...)

Are you on an A1200 or A600?

If you're on an A600, you might need to add a trapdoor 1MB ChipRAM expansion maybe?

[FOL]

Originally Posted by AndyLandy

PCMCIA is definitely FastRAM, not ChipRAM. (Not that it's terribly fast FastRAM, but still...)

Are you on an A1200 or A600?

If you're on an A600, you might need to add a trapdoor 1MB ChipRAM expansion maybe?

Tis true (andy is right), if you have only one meg chip, then you will always get that error if they require 2 meg chip.

So you must be using an A600 with only 1MB CHIP.

[Foul]

oopss always thought pcmcia was chipram ...i'm learning everyday

[spanner]

No I am using A1200 with PCMICA 2 meg card..

So I need more memory like a 4meg card..??

[Retro-Nerd]

Get a Fastram expansion (trapdoor slot). PCMCIA fastram is too slow for an A1200.

[spanner]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Get a Fastram expansion (trapdoor slot). PCMCIA fastram is too slow for an A1200.

I would do but they are too expensive at the moment,don't have the money at the moment,that the problem when you are disabled I can't work.(wish I had money for one)

buying one would take a weeks money up.
Haven't had a job for about 7 years now..

[AndyLandy]

Originally Posted by spanner

I would do but they are too expensive at the moment,don't have the money at the moment,that the problem when you are disabled I can't work.(wish I had money for one)

buying one would take a weeks money up.
Haven't had a job for about 7 years now..

I did some tests with this. PCMCIA FastRAM will actually slow down your A1200. You'll get about 65% performance since it's actually slower than the ChipRAM!

It's been a while since I looked, but I seem to recall that PCMCIA SRAM cards and A1200 FastRAM cards are in about the same price range, you might be able to do a direct swap with someone, or at the very least, a part-exchange?

[desiv]

Originally Posted by AndyLandy

I did some tests with this. PCMCIA FastRAM will actually slow down your A1200. You'll get about 65% performance since it's actually slower than the ChipRAM!

While true it will slow your system down, if you're mostly using it to play A500 games, you probably won't notice..
I did that for a while until I got a real FAST RAM card (MUCH better).
You don't want to play AGA games that way, and they kind of expect a 1200 running at 1200 speeds.. ;-)

When I was getting that error, I'd find that frequently, I could play the game if I booted with no startup-sequence and ran whdload manually for the game.

Some slaves take all the memory you have (especially if you only have 2M + 2M).

The other thing you can do is remove the PRELOAD (It's PRELOAD, right? Memory is a bit fuzzy) tooltype from the icon....

desiv

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Get a Fastram expansion (trapdoor slot). PCMCIA fastram is too slow for an A1200.

Look for something with 8mb. With 4mb I still have your message with AG Launcher.

[spanner]

Hi I know there is a list of games and what ram is needed to run the game in WHDLoad,I did find it but can't now..anyone know the url or know what iam talking about..?

Originally Posted by desiv

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The other thing you can do is remove the PRELOAD (It's PRELOAD, right? Memory is a bit fuzzy) tooltype from the icon....

desiv

Ah I did know you could do that thanks..

[daxb]

I fear that PRELOAD won`t help much because it "only" preloads data if free memory is available, else it won`t. Sooner or later out of memory problems occur.

[_ThEcRoW]

It's one of these things about whdload that really annoy me. A perfectly floppy game usable on bare machine, won't work under whdload. Even without preloading, and i know because i tried a lot of whd games when only had a bare 1200.

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by _ThEcRoW

It's one of these things about whdload that really annoy me. A perfectly floppy game usable on bare machine, won't work under whdload. Even without preloading, and i know because i tried a lot of whd games when only had a bare 1200.

Most games, when booted from floppy, can and will use the complete memory as they don't use any system functions. WHDLoad has to save OS memory/vectors to be able to use OS functions, there's no way around that.

[Codetapper]

Originally Posted by _ThEcRoW

It's one of these things about whdload that really annoy me. A perfectly floppy game usable on bare machine, won't work under whdload. Even without preloading, and i know because i tried a lot of whd games when only had a bare 1200.

Then run them from floppies if it really annoys you that much...