[A83] Re: extra storage

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: extra storage
From: Gavin Olson <gtolson@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:56:12 -0500
In-reply-to: <c8.31d945ec.2b2dfc17@aol.com>
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org

At 10:39 AM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/15/2002 10:12:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>SOCCERK121@aol.com writes:
>
>>It is all used as free space, but archived.  You're not used to that 
>>concept either.  You can still run them as regular programs under ion/mirage.
>
>
>the only problem with running stuff through ion/mirage is the fact that to 
>run the program, it has to be unarchived to run...  If your program is 
>over 24k, or you've got more than absolutely nothing unarchived and on 
>RAM, you'll have trouble running stuff...  (ie, the game Gemini...  great 
>game, but requires 23.8k RAM to run - that would be one great reason for 
>some sort of memory expansion...)

Memory expanders work just like Archive.  You have to do a transfer to RAM 
to run the program.  With good driver software and a nice hardware 
interface, it might be just as easy as Archive, but current models require 
the use of the Link menu.

The one idea that allowed huge (>24K) programs was the lib routines to grab 
data from the expander ldir-style.  It requires clear level distinctions 
and optical-media style 'loading' delays.

Follow-Ups:

[A83] Re: extra storage

From: "Ronald Teune" <rtwolf@gmx.net>

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[A83] Re: extra storage

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