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Half-N-Half V.1 by C.Randall on Jan 1,1994.
-Public domain "fakefast" utility-
This program is in request to several messages on Usenet. Seems some
1200 owners want to fake FAST memory to run a lamer program or two. There
are a multitude of programs to do this, but it seems they only leave 512k
of CHIP behind. This is an attempt to temporarily solve this.
This program simply requests a 1 meg chunk of memory. This will be
FAST if present (if this is true, why run this program???). But more
likely will be CHIP. Then the program will add this memory to the system
as FAST+PUBLIC. This is done with AddMemList in the exec library. Note
that this list has the flags "MEMF_PUBLIC | MEMF_FAST", a priority of "-1"
and the name "FKE".
This allocated memory CAN NOT be restored. Therefore, the only way to
recover your CHIP memory is to REBOOT. Sorry, but it *is* a hack.
IMPORTANT: This program will not reset the machine, will not survive a
reset, and is only useful to operation system "semi"-friendly programs.
This will not be a solution if an offending program "bangs" the hardware
looking for FAST memory. If this is the case, the best (and maybe only)
solution is to buy some FAST memory. Sorry, but blame the lamer coder.
DISCLAIMER: This program is released as PUBLIC DOMAIN and as such I am
not responsible for any harm done, either directly or indirectly. The code
and or docs may or may not be included. This program can be sold by anyone
and as such can be included anywhere on anything. I don't feel that any
worthwhile time was used to make this, so I don't expect anything.
This program is a HACK and should never be used unless all other
posibilities have been exhausted!
If you wish to contact me with questions, programming solutions, or
just to bullshit, EMail me at:
crandall@garnet.msen.com
(May the future be Degrader free.)