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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:FUNYET::ANDERSON
Created:Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1433
Total number of notes:10312

1015.0. "Flight Sym II on Ram Disc" by BRUMMY::LUMMIS (OOPPSS the fans stopped ! ) Mon Nov 19 1990 11:59

    Im trying to get Flight Sym II to run on a ram disk but it crashes as
    the program comes to life.
    
    	Any Ideas....
    
    
    Simon.
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1015.1PRNSYS::LOMICKAJJeffrey A. LomickaMon Nov 19 1990 14:393
I did this one using a Mark Williams RAM disk.  I haven't look at it in
a while, but I don't recall doing anything special.  I know it had to
auto-boot.  I can't start Flight Simulator once GEM is running.
1015.2Thanks ButBRUMMY::LUMMISOOPPSS the fans stopped ! Tue Nov 20 1990 15:0610
    
> I did this one using a Mark Williams RAM disk.  I haven't look at it in
> a while, but I don't recall doing anything special.  I know it had to
> auto-boot.  I can't start Flight Simulator once GEM is running.
    
    Im not farmiliar with Mark Williams RAM disk. From your above comment I
    assume that you can auto boot the ram disk and tell it what to load and
    then autostart ?
    
    Thanks for the first answer Simon.
1015.3Mark Williams RAM disk detailsPRNSYS::LOMICKAJJeffrey A. LomickaTue Nov 20 1990 18:574
Mark Williams C comes with a RAM disk generator program that creates RAM
disk programs that are PRE-LOADED with contents and become the BOOT
DEVICE when run.  I created one that contained the contents of the
Flight Simulator disk and booted it, and it worked.
1015.4Just what I needed but ?BRUMMY::LUMMISOOPPSS the fans stopped ! Wed Nov 21 1990 09:459
    Thats just what I wanted to here Jeff , now all I need to do is find a
    MW Ram Disk. Jeff have you done much flying on FSII ?
    
    The reason I wanted to load FSII into ramdisk was because while flying
    the disply stops while the ST reads the next chunk of senery data into
    memory. The next question is how would you get an optional senery disk
    to load ... put it in the ram disk at the begining I guess.
    
    Thanks and Regards Simon.