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Yesterday, 07:01
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Dragon's Lair memory requirements
On the cover of the Dragon's Lair box, it mentions that A500/2000 require 1MB of memory but A1000 only needs 512kB.
Anybody have an idea as to the technical reason for the difference? |
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Yesterday, 08:08
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The A2000 and IIRC later A500's were released with 1MB standard chipram so it would be an acknowledgement of that. I had an A1000 512k and it ran fine on that too.
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Yesterday, 08:43
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A500 didn't come with 1MB of RAM until the A500Plus in 1991. Dragon's Lair was released in 1989.
Tested in WinUAE that the game does not load on a 512kB A500 config, but does load on 1MB. Just curious what allows the game to run on an A1000 with only 512kB. |
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Yesterday, 10:09
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The game requires 768 KB of RAM.
On the A1000 it uses the special 256KB WCS RAM which is normally used by the KickStart 'ROM'. |
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