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"RAMDOS.PRG" - RAMDOS BASIC LOADER FILE
This file you can use with RAMDOS instead of the loader that comes with
it. This loader benefits from avoiding some problems with the other
loader. All of these differences specifically concern the C128 mode.
When used with JiffyDOS, previously you could face this. Right after
enabling RAMDOS, load up some very large file. For me, I loaded one of
the ACE archives.
/ACE.SFX
Wham! The computer crashes. Or something. Why? The reason for this
sillyness actually originates with JiffyDOS itself. JD suffers a bug in
which a certain file Load register is not initialized, but should be.
This was very simple to adjust in the loader to avoid this crashing.
Now, you should be able to load very large files.
Another item is graphic allocation. The other loader allocated the
graphic area. Unfortunately, many programs are not designed to work
when the graphic area is allocated. They will simply crash. So this
loader does not allocate the graphic area.
I have not included the actual RAMDOS drivers here because of comments
by the author of the 2Mb patch. No matter. Just locate those files if
you don't have them.
If you should wish to disable RAMDOS, this is accomplished if you run
the loader and accept the prompts when your disk with the RD drivers is
not inserted.
Here's one tip. If you have JiffyDOS, and you make a habit of copying
files to ramdisk, then you might add the following line to the program,
which will set you up for copying.
345 @xu
- Adam Vardy