• Emulating a RAM Expander on Vice?

    From Spitfire@64:500/2 to All on Sat Jan 4 15:47:22 2020
    Has anyone messed with this before? Looks like if you had the right rom, you could do just that. I tried to search for information on this without
    any luck.

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  • From Bucko@64:500/3 to Spitfire on Sat Jan 4 19:05:01 2020
    On 04 Jan 2020, Spitfire said the following...

    Has anyone messed with this before? Looks like if you had the right rom, you could do just that. I tried to search for information on this without any luck.

    I have, and did have it working, in fact I had a "RAM DISK" setup with all of my PFiles for running the BBS on it. The problem I had was the File I was
    using had the RAM DISK as Device 15 and I needed it as 7 because Image can
    use a RAM disk as device 7.. I pushed it off for a bit until I got some other things done I will revisit it soon..

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
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  • From Spitfire@64:500/2 to Bucko on Sat Jan 4 23:20:50 2020
    On Sat 4-Jan-2020 7:05p, Bucko@64:500/3.0 said to Spitfire:
    I have, and did have it working, in fact I had a "RAM DISK" setup with all of
    my PFiles for running the BBS on it. The problem I had was the File I was using had the RAM DISK as Device 15 and I needed it as 7 because Image can use a RAM disk as device 7.. I pushed it off for a bit until I got some other
    things done I will revisit it soon..

    When I ran C-Net back in the day on real hardware, I used a RAM Expander. Been looking at doing the same now on Vice.

    -Spitfire Inc presents 2 Unique Systems...

    Reign of Fire II BBS
    C-Net DS-2 v2.6 - rof.cnet64.com:6400
    Reign of Fire BBS
    C-Net Amiga Pro v5.21c - rofbbs.cnetbbs.net:2300 - 931-494-9100
    * C-Net/5

    * Origin: Reign of Fire C-Net Amiga Pro BBS v5.21c (64:500/2)
  • From Bucko@64:500/3 to Spitfire on Sun Jan 5 09:36:46 2020
    On 04 Jan 2020, Spitfire said the following...


    When I ran C-Net back in the day on real hardware, I used a RAM Expander. Been looking at doing the same now on Vice.


    Scott Hutter wrote mods for a RAM Drive for the U64, I was able to use them
    in WinVice, BUT they had issues reading the drive because it was set to drive 15. He has since modified the code to allow you to choose the device #..
    Check in the U64 group on facebook to get the code, the only issue is WinVice will NOT save the files to the RamDrive so you would be copying them each
    time you reboot.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (64:500/3)
  • From Spitfire@64:500/2 to Bucko on Sun Jan 5 10:12:00 2020
    On Sun 5-Jan-2020 9:36a, Bucko@64:500/3.0 said to Spitfire:

    Scott Hutter wrote mods for a RAM Drive for the U64, I was able to use
    them
    in WinVice, BUT they had issues reading the drive because it was set to drive
    15. He has since modified the code to allow you to choose the device #.. Check in the U64 group on facebook to get the code, the only issue is WinVice
    will NOT save the files to the RamDrive so you would be copying them each time you reboot.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (64:500/3)

    Thats a start! Thanks. I will look into that and see what I find.

    -Spitfire Inc presents 2 Unique Systems...

    Reign of Fire II BBS
    C-Net DS-2 v2.6 - rof.cnet64.com:6400
    Reign of Fire BBS
    C-Net Amiga Pro v5.21c - rofbbs.cnetbbs.net:2300 - 931-494-9100
    * C-Net/5

    * Origin: Reign of Fire C-Net Amiga Pro BBS v5.21c (64:500/2)