Re: Virtual Memory (Was Re: Kernel 1.14.7 available)

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michael Schwingen wrote:

> BTW: returning to the beginning of this discussion: It should be enough to
> only use ST-RAM for blittable memory. There are enough machines where the
> blitter can't access alternate RAM (eg. ST/STE with Magnum and other ALT-Ram
> cards, Falcon with Afterburner).

The only problem is the original Falcon VDI, as it doesn't work
without the blitter (which all other TOS-versions does) and doesn't
know about alternate RAM. I don't think it's worth patching the Falcon
VDI just for this (can it even be done?), as there are alternative
VDI's available, both commercial (NVDI) and free (fVDI).

> Which programs *are* using alternate RAM for Icons etc.? Can't we fix these
> instead of turning of the blitter?

All GEM-programs that's loaded into/mallocs from alternate RAM is
affected by this.


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