Msg: 5171 *Conference*
07-06-94 16:46:59
From: TRACY ALLEN
To : COMET _
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #5159 (MEMORY EXPANSION)
I just received a card in the mail from King Computer, listing the "Secrets of ROM" book, among other things. The bad news is that the price is back up to $40! The RAMPAC does plug into the expansion bus. On the 102, the bus is on the back edge of the computer. On the M100, it is under the hood, in the same compartment with the option ROM socket. To use the RAMPAC on the M100, you would have to have a special adapter cable, which makes provision for simultaneous use of the RAMPAC and the extRAM/XR4. The software drivers for the RAMPAC and the extRAM/XR4 coexist without problems. The software for the extRAM/XR4 has come a long way from the time of the article in 1990. It now handles loading of individual files. However, it is true that it can only save material into the XR4 32k at a time. Saving an individual file involves swapping banks, loading the file, and swapping back. The XR4MNU program automates that process, but it is awkward and counterintuitive for non-techies. Your proposal, to do the file saving by precreating file pointers, would be an interesting project and I encourage you to do it! -- Tracy