[Coco] Video memory past the two bits at $FF9B...

[Ray Watts]

There were several RAMdisk cartridges for the MiltiPak, but Tony D's was 
by far the most popular and its memory was expandable from 256k or 512k 
up to (at least) 1meg.  I still use a 512k jobby in one of my systems 
for compiling, running Sub Simulator and running Deskmate3.  It is also 
a handy place to bust merged modules and burst archives without messing 
up the hard drive.  Kept some chips on hand to expand to 768k but 
haven't got around to it.

Griz


Neil Morrison wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
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>>There is no support in NitrOS-9 for memory over 2Megs and is not likely
>>to be so in the future. It would require a major rewrite of system code
>>if possible. However, there is no reason that a user could not access
>>and use this extra memory through special drivers/programs.
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>Wasn't there a design for a RAM disk in a cartridge to fit in the MultiPak?
>These days you could easily put 128 Mb or more in something like that and
>use it as a large, fast, hard drive. Good for compilers!
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>Neil
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