How to free other mem?

[billeohamn]

Hi

I bought a Amiga 600 HD, there is a lot of preinstalled sofware and games.

But I cant run anything due to low other memory.

The only thing I want my amiga for, is to play games from the HDD.

Any ideas?

Best regards Christian

[Predseda]

There is NO other memory in your Amiga installed. You have a basic setup, A600 comes with 1MB memory on board. That memory is called "Chip RAM" (or chip mem), and can be expanded with another 1MB memory module. It is to be installed in the expansion port at the bottom of your computer, under the trapdoor. This can be commonly bought.

"Other Memory" is anoter addidional memory, that A600 can handle. It can be fast ram, slow ram (I will not describe the difference) and it can be added to A600 on special expansion boards or pcmcia card.

In your case, there is no Other mem that can be freed, I recommend you purchasing a 1MB chipmem trapdoor module. On the other hand, 380kB is really low, your basic Amiga should have about 800-900kB free chip memory after boot.

[billeohamn]

Thanks, but why have the person that I bought this Amiga from installed games and sofware if they cant be runned. I dont understand.

What do you recommend, do you have a name or link what I shall buy in order to get these game to work?

[Dan]

Try booting up your amiga from a workbench floppy disk, then see how much memory is 'left'.

[billeohamn]

Okay, thanks for your time and help.

[billeohamn]

Is their any way for me to make a new clean format from os the Amiga Workbench with some command? without install a new workbench?

[billeohamn]

Which one shall I order, what do you recommend for my Amiga 600 HD ?

Do you whink everything that is installed (software & gamaes) will start to work if I order and install one of these?

http://amigakit.amiga.store/a600-chi...miga-p-95.html

https://amigastore.eu/714-amiga-600-...nsion-rtc.html

[thomas]

Before you buy a new one you should first check if there isn't a memory expansion which has loosened or fallen off during the transport.

Also you should be able to free some memory by reducing the number of colors and resolution of the Workbench screen. And check the startup scripts if unnecessary programs are auto-started.

An A600 should have 1 MB of memory. You've got 300 KB left after booting. That sounds like a bad software configuration to me.

[billeohamn]

Okay, Nice tips. I look this up.

[Photon]

You can find out how much the A600 starts with and how much is eaten by harddisk buffers:

1. Hold both mouse buttons on power-on. This starts the Early Boot menu.
2. Go Advanced Options... > Startup-Sequence > Disabled > USE.
3. Click on DH0.
4. Type avail and press Enter
5. Type addbuffers dh0: and press Enter
6. Take a photo and post.

These two numbers added together (100 buffers is 50KB) gives the total amount of memory in the machine.

You should be able to see the sales ad after purchase, to see the amount of memory you paid for. Scroll down to the specifications and take a photo.

If they match, you won't have to open up the case. (There's a risk of breaking the old plastic in the snap pieces along the back of the case.)

[billeohamn]

I dont find DH0, it looks like this.

[billeohamn]

I also get this error message at the boot of the Amiga Workbench

[Predseda]

You have 3 external floppy disk drives connected?

[billeohamn]

No, just one extra (external)

[Photon]

Oh. WB_2.x = DH0 in the instructions above.

[billeohamn]

I cant delete this game kots, say error while removing kots (202) object is in use? How do I delete?

Thank you everyone for helping me out here.

[billeohamn]

Here is the photo.

[Predseda]

Originally Posted by billeohamn

No, just one extra (external)

There is something fishy in your system as it thinks you have floppy drives DF1-DF3 attached. They also eat from your memory. I am afraid this would probably need the fresh new installation of Workbench as it seems your current setup is problematic in depth.

[Predseda]

Originally Posted by Photon

Oh. WB_2.x = DH0 in the instructions above.

Okay, but still shouldn't it add buffers to Device, no matter what Volume name is?

[billeohamn]

I removed the external diskdrive, looks better.

But I still dont get extra memory.