[Coco] (Mega2) Was: new question/survey

[Bob Devries]

It seems from my experimentation that although the emulators can be set to 
8MB of RAM, NitrOS9's 'mfree' command hasn't caught up with that, and 
currently shows only 2MB.

Regards, Bob Devries

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:09 PM
Subject: [Coco] (Mega2) Was: new question/survey


> Hi,
>
> I do not know which emulator you are using but there is a problem with 
> OS-9 L-II with any memory size greater than 512 in both real CoCo's and 
> emulators that I told Jeff about and that he addressed.
>
> Part of the fix was to run a small program called "Mega2" which Tony was 
> the author and supplied it with his 2 Meg hardware kit.
>
> This program made some memory blocks busy so that they could not be 
> assigned to graphics memory.
>
> I have not heard if NitrOS-9 built this in or if it has been addressed by 
> any of the other emulators.
>
> This cannot be fixed in any real CoCo so except for automatically making 
> these memory blocks busy, nothing can be done.
>
> SHF
>
> P.S. 1928K = 1.928 Meg, so I think your guess is bad.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Campbell" <asa.rand at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] new question/survey
>
>
> ...
>> I just set the emulator to 8 megs to see what happens. MFree reports 
>> 1928K of free memory, so I guess I have 8 megs.
>>
>> Wayne
>
>
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