@@10MARC Right, there are three chunks of the memory and it uses all the free addresses, and has special extra place in memory for Kickstart mapping, not wasted regular RAM.
@@karolwojtyla3047 Well what it does, is Remap the Kickstart to an address outside of the usual 8MB slot for the ZorroII addressing, then it makes the Kickstart home address available as RAM. the Location is 0xA00000 which is the ZorroII I/O Expansion range (1.5MB), and since the A600 does not have ZorroII slots (unlike the 2000), "hey lets steal that address Cos its not being used"
I have 8 MB to my disposal, with my Amiga 500 and its ACA-500plus accelerator. I use it to write fantasy short stories, dabble in DPaint IV and, aside from games, my Frankenstein-A500 holds the words of its own odyssey and resurrection.
Fantastic video =D Really good use case of the RAM too! That RAD drive is very cool - wasnt aware of that! Just checked and its supported in 3.1 too =O I will have to give that a go!!! Kavanoz is a cool guy btw =D
RAD: drives were available back as far as 2.0. Another cool feature (if you have enough ram), as explained you can have MULTIPLE RAD's, and because it utilizes Trackdisk commands from the Kickstart, it will even support MFM mode Trackdisk commands, so in theory you can Autoboot from RAD in to game demos that bypassed AmigaDos (Directly access Trackdisk.device from ROM with no Operating system loaded) so you can copy over ADF images of anything you want to them, say the Budbrain megademo to RAD, and have it Autoboot from RAD, and because it supports the Trackdisk UNIT command, it will also handle Multiple disk releases, and will Automatically change disks. So "Insert Disk 2", Yes, it will recognize the disk presence as if it was actually inserted in to a Physical floppy. RAD: is set up in Autoexec as 'Resident', so yes it survives the Three Finger Salute. In regards to the RAD using CHIP ram, if you launched it via Mountlist, you could use the bufmemtype option in the Mountlist to FORCE it to use Chip, OR Fastram. When I was using it MANY moons ago, I had a GVP A530 on a stock A500 (512K Chip) and DID NOT have any issues mounting 1MB RAD's. I do not have the 2.0 manual handy (the BIG BIG folder manual), it is in the shed I think, but in there, there are examples of forcing Bufmemtype to Chip Memory or Fast and the corresponding Decimal value. All Devices use a small amount of cache, be it floppy or HDD. The cache is used to transfer the data between the device and the computer. That cache memory can be Chip Ram, or Fastram, so the use of the Mountlist to define what memory to build the cache from, which is why generally it uses CHIP ram, the system assigns the Cache at Autoexec, but...., RAD: is a sort of cache, and because it is Governed under a Mountlist, you can alter its parameters, namely, the RAM it uses. Essentially, the tool from aminet also does this, changes the Ram type used From poor memory: Bufmemtype = 0 or 1 (Uses Any Ram available, Chip Preferenced), Bufmemtype = 2 or 3 (CHIP ONLY), Bufmemtype = 4 or 5 (FAST ONLY) so if you edit the Mountlist for RAD: to say 'Bufmemtype = 4 (or 5), it will FORCE the Rad to be created in FASTMEM regardless of CHIP Ram availability.
I had 14 MB on my A3000. Ran a 2 line BBS and what ever else I wanted (not play games) but that was good. Some of the games that did not take over the computer I could.
@@ShaneBro best machine made by Commodore. Too bad the AGA version never officially made the light of day. It would have been so much better than the Amiga 4000. Don't get me wrong I love my 4000 But she is just not designed as well as the Amiga 3000
@@10MARC So true. The A1200 and A4000 were great machines but imagine an A3000 with AGA. I am amazed at is that you can add 256 MB of ram to the Amiga and it won't barf! You mentioned that getting near 1GB would make it go nuts, at what point does add enough memory make it map the memory in weird places?
@@ShaneBro It will handle 1 gig just fine, and possibly even two gigs. That's kind of pushing it though. Apparently after 1 gig it starts seeing the memory address space as Amiga error messages and goes wacky. It is fixable from what I understand, it's just nobody's taking the time to do it. Probably because they're concerned it would break something else.
Great Vid Doug 👍🏻 I’ve used Jens BigRAM+ 256MB Z3 card for a couple of years now. Keep seeing arguments about it’s not fast enough etc.. As you’ve pointed out, you don’t need the speed. Have ordered a Gottago card as well to try out. I take it you can add more than one of these cards to make 512MB? Have a BFG9060 coming as well. Oh and just got myself a A3000 to play around with. Now do I use these cards in a A3000 or my A4000? Decisions..Decisions 😊
There is a 512MB version of this card that "Transi" sells on Amibay. I have one coming in and will review it in a few weeks. One thing I will test is if these cards can work together. As far as speed, it is really limited by the ZORRO 3 interface - about 12.5 MBs. But since the Amiga is so good about prioritizing faster memory, it does not slow the system down at all. I need the memory to deal with huge pictures, so I don't notice any speed loss.
Great video! Funnily enough when I designed it I had no idea why anyone would need so much ram on an Amiga besides running Beneath a Steel Sky :P So it's good to see that there's some more legitimate uses
Oh for sure! It all depends on what you want to do. Beyond about 128MB is a point of diminishing return for most software, especially as things were back in 1994 or so, but now there are some legit reasons for it
And being the blind fool that I am I did not notice it was the darn creator of the card who replied here! The old brain just did not make the connection! Fantastic job, BTW
@Mr Guru This is a good idea, the code would be adaptable to this quite easily but would need a different CPLD or FPGA with more pins to drive the additional signals needed. I don't have much free time to work on things anymore though so someone else would have to do that
Fantasic video as usual. Get the points over without too much jargon. You also make great use of the absolutely most missed feature of a GUI that Amiga had, you can select more than one thing from a drop down menu without having to open and close it!
It is a brilliant feature being able to choose multiple things in a menu. I actually used it for years without really realizing it was unique to the Amiga!
Very nice! 128 MB is the "Sweet Spot" for me - plenty of RAM for the photos I work on, but having more is just so great as it really opens up the RAM: and RAD: capabilities!
Oh I like lemmings too. And yes I do play video games on my Amiga. There's just always those group of people who feel that you should not touch the original hardware. They want to run the Amiga 1000 with just 256K of chip ram and never add a single thing to it. The Amiga was designed from the ground up to be expanded, and I'm not afraid to do it!
Missed an opportunity to work "RADical" into the title of this video. Shame on you, sir! All my serious productivity stuff is on the A1200 which has only 10MB of RAM instead of on the PiStormed A500 with 256MB of RAM. D'oh!
I have truly failed... I should have cashed in on the "Cool 80's kid" vibe for sure! I have to admit I am spoiled by all the RAM in my Amiga's... I am so used to at least 32MB in most of my machines when I use one with less I feel so limited!
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Best explanation of the RAD drive I've come across, knew of it before but not how to use it, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! While RAD: is not as useful as it used to be now that we all have huge hard drives, it still does some awesome things.
I have 13,5MB in my A600 2MB chip and the Furia, and I'm very happy. :)
The way the Furia deals with that mysterious "Ranger RAM" is neat. What a clever way to beat the 8 MB limitation!
@@10MARC Right, there are three chunks of the memory and it uses all the free addresses, and has special extra place in memory for Kickstart mapping, not wasted regular RAM.
@@karolwojtyla3047 Well what it does, is Remap the Kickstart to an address outside of the usual 8MB slot for the ZorroII addressing, then it makes the Kickstart home address available as RAM. the Location is 0xA00000 which is the ZorroII I/O Expansion range (1.5MB), and since the A600 does not have ZorroII slots (unlike the 2000), "hey lets steal that address Cos its not being used"
I have 8 MB to my disposal, with my Amiga 500 and its ACA-500plus accelerator.
I use it to write fantasy short stories, dabble in DPaint IV and, aside from games, my Frankenstein-A500 holds the words of its own odyssey and resurrection.
Fantastic video =D Really good use case of the RAM too! That RAD drive is very cool - wasnt aware of that! Just checked and its supported in 3.1 too =O I will have to give that a go!!! Kavanoz is a cool guy btw =D
Yes, I enjoyed your video on the 256MB RAM card for sure! I just watched it this week.
RAD: drives were available back as far as 2.0. Another cool feature (if you have enough ram), as explained you can have MULTIPLE RAD's, and because it utilizes Trackdisk commands from the Kickstart, it will even support MFM mode Trackdisk commands, so in theory you can Autoboot from RAD in to game demos that bypassed AmigaDos (Directly access Trackdisk.device from ROM with no Operating system loaded) so you can copy over ADF images of anything you want to them, say the Budbrain megademo to RAD, and have it Autoboot from RAD, and because it supports the Trackdisk UNIT command, it will also handle Multiple disk releases, and will Automatically change disks. So "Insert Disk 2", Yes, it will recognize the disk presence as if it was actually inserted in to a Physical floppy.
RAD: is set up in Autoexec as 'Resident', so yes it survives the Three Finger Salute.
In regards to the RAD using CHIP ram, if you launched it via Mountlist, you could use the bufmemtype option in the Mountlist to FORCE it to use Chip, OR Fastram. When I was using it MANY moons ago, I had a GVP A530 on a stock A500 (512K Chip) and DID NOT have any issues mounting 1MB RAD's.
I do not have the 2.0 manual handy (the BIG BIG folder manual), it is in the shed I think, but in there, there are examples of forcing Bufmemtype to Chip Memory or Fast and the corresponding Decimal value.
All Devices use a small amount of cache, be it floppy or HDD. The cache is used to transfer the data between the device and the computer. That cache memory can be Chip Ram, or Fastram, so the use of the Mountlist to define what memory to build the cache from, which is why generally it uses CHIP ram, the system assigns the Cache at Autoexec, but...., RAD: is a sort of cache, and because it is Governed under a Mountlist, you can alter its parameters, namely, the RAM it uses.
Essentially, the tool from aminet also does this, changes the Ram type used
From poor memory: Bufmemtype = 0 or 1 (Uses Any Ram available, Chip Preferenced), Bufmemtype = 2 or 3 (CHIP ONLY), Bufmemtype = 4 or 5 (FAST ONLY) so if you edit the Mountlist for RAD: to say 'Bufmemtype = 4 (or 5), it will FORCE the Rad to be created in FASTMEM regardless of CHIP Ram availability.
@@ChannelReuploads9451 wonderful information on the RAD: disk!
I had 14 MB on my A3000. Ran a 2 line BBS and what ever else I wanted (not play games) but that was good. Some of the games that did not take over the computer I could.
My poor A3000 only had 4 MB of FAST RAM for the longest time in the 90's. That ZIP RAM was not cheap!
@@10MARC So true. I was at home and had some money at the time so I was lucky! :) Great machine that A3000.
@@ShaneBro best machine made by Commodore. Too bad the AGA version never officially made the light of day. It would have been so much better than the Amiga 4000. Don't get me wrong I love my 4000 But she is just not designed as well as the Amiga 3000
@@10MARC So true. The A1200 and A4000 were great machines but imagine an A3000 with AGA. I am amazed at is that you can add 256 MB of ram to the Amiga and it won't barf! You mentioned that getting near 1GB would make it go nuts, at what point does add enough memory make it map the memory in weird places?
@@ShaneBro It will handle 1 gig just fine, and possibly even two gigs. That's kind of pushing it though. Apparently after 1 gig it starts seeing the memory address space as Amiga error messages and goes wacky. It is fixable from what I understand, it's just nobody's taking the time to do it. Probably because they're concerned it would break something else.
Great Vid Doug 👍🏻 I’ve used Jens BigRAM+ 256MB Z3 card for a couple of years now. Keep seeing arguments about it’s not fast enough etc.. As you’ve pointed out, you don’t need the speed. Have ordered a Gottago card as well to try out. I take it you can add more than one of these cards to make 512MB? Have a BFG9060 coming as well. Oh and just got myself a A3000 to play around with. Now do I use these cards in a A3000 or my A4000? Decisions..Decisions 😊
There is a 512MB version of this card that "Transi" sells on Amibay. I have one coming in and will review it in a few weeks. One thing I will test is if these cards can work together.
As far as speed, it is really limited by the ZORRO 3 interface - about 12.5 MBs. But since the Amiga is so good about prioritizing faster memory, it does not slow the system down at all.
I need the memory to deal with huge pictures, so I don't notice any speed loss.
Great video! Funnily enough when I designed it I had no idea why anyone would need so much ram on an Amiga besides running Beneath a Steel Sky :P So it's good to see that there's some more legitimate uses
Oh for sure! It all depends on what you want to do. Beyond about 128MB is a point of diminishing return for most software, especially as things were back in 1994 or so, but now there are some legit reasons for it
And being the blind fool that I am I did not notice it was the darn creator of the card who replied here! The old brain just did not make the connection! Fantastic job, BTW
@Mr Guru This is a good idea, the code would be adaptable to this quite easily but would need a different CPLD or FPGA with more pins to drive the additional signals needed.
I don't have much free time to work on things anymore though so someone else would have to do that
@@10MARC Thanks! 😃
I'm fs-uae here in containerized crostini debian chromebook arm64. I usually max out the zorro III emulation memory.
You bet! A lot of my WinUAE sessions I have set to 512MB of RAM!
Fantasic video as usual. Get the points over without too much jargon. You also make great use of the absolutely most missed feature of a GUI that Amiga had, you can select more than one thing from a drop down menu without having to open and close it!
It is a brilliant feature being able to choose multiple things in a menu. I actually used it for years without really realizing it was unique to the Amiga!
"at least not that I'm ready to show you yet" - oh Doug, you big tease! 😱
Gotta keep people in suspense!
I feel like i have seen this before. Kavanoz great dude. enjoy that ram. did you get the bfg and the icy?
Yuppers. What a kind soul! He is overworked thanks to your reviews!
25:45 minutes 10 minutes retro cast:)
10 minutes plus 15 minutes and 45 seconds of free bonus content. How can you go wrong with that?
Just as we like it. :-)
I have 400 MB in my Amiga :)
Very nice! 128 MB is the "Sweet Spot" for me - plenty of RAM for the photos I work on, but having more is just so great as it really opens up the RAM: and RAD: capabilities!
I learned a new phrase today. Higgily Piggily.
Feel free to use that word, as well as Peachy Keen and "Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy". "Little Guy" is off limits according to my legal team, though.
@@10MARC hahah! The best quotes!
I like lemmings. Why do this? Because you can. Why have an 800hp corvette because you can.
Oh I like lemmings too. And yes I do play video games on my Amiga. There's just always those group of people who feel that you should not touch the original hardware. They want to run the Amiga 1000 with just 256K of chip ram and never add a single thing to it. The Amiga was designed from the ground up to be expanded, and I'm not afraid to do it!
Missed an opportunity to work "RADical" into the title of this video. Shame on you, sir!
All my serious productivity stuff is on the A1200 which has only 10MB of RAM instead of on the PiStormed A500 with 256MB of RAM. D'oh!
I have truly failed... I should have cashed in on the "Cool 80's kid" vibe for sure! I have to admit I am spoiled by all the RAM in my Amiga's... I am so used to at least 32MB in most of my machines when I use one with less I feel so limited!
Shouldn’t it be called "GottaGrowB1gg3r"? I get it, no Z3 in that…
XXxxG0tt@Gr0wB1gg3r3zxxXx for the ultimate "13 year old XBox Name that I regret when I am 20" style.
@@10MARC Perfect! Maybe a 69 here or there... (...would they allow that?)