#ARP 1.3 and Amy 3000
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I'd be suprised if there is any hardware problem running the ARP commands;
a lot of people have used the ARP commands under V1.3 of ADOS with various
CPU's and configurations. Most likely if there is a hardware problem
either your machine is broken, or the OS (V1.3) is broken.
If you're running under V2.0 of ADOS, you should probably use the ADOS
Mount command; I removed Mount from my V1.4/V2.0 development machine last
fall and haven't tried it since. In general I'd treat the ARP commands
pretty much like any other application you want to run under ADOS V2.0. We
will be doing a somewhat formal compatability review of the ARP commands
with ADOS V2.0? sometime after Commodore releases the "final" V2.0 OS (an
official release of ADOS V2.0 for systems other than A3000's).
Regarding why some users of arp.library might not break, even though some
of the specific ARP commands break; arp.library has about 50 different
functions, and there are about 50 different ARP commands. They're related
in name, but each piece is independent just like all of the pieces of
AmigaDOS are independent. There are hundreds of known bugs in AmigaDOS,
but there are also lots of programs which are not effected in any way. You
might think of it like a car; you don't need to replace the engine and
drivetrain to fix a flat tire. If you run out of gas, you can get more at
a gas station, you don't need to sell the car.
…cheath
Thanks for the reply! A little background…I have been hacking (good
sense of the word) for about 15 years now. Sadly I haven't done much on
the Amy other than a few DOS utilities because of the lack of
documentation. (I waited for 18 months for ROM Kernal manuals, but gave
up.) Thus I won't be bothering you with silly things like expecting ARP to
run OK under 2.0 kickstart.
My difficulties were under 1.3 following a both-mouse-keys-held-down
boot. ARP and indeed my whole startup-sequence is identical on the A3000
and my A1000, and it worked FINE (or at least didn't show symptoms) when my
A3000 had 2 meg chip and 1 meg fast ram. With 2 meg chip and 4 meg fast
(all static column 80ns) there is trouble!
It may be significant that my machine was also MUCH slower on benchmarks
before the memory upgrade. It now clocks at 7.2 Amy1000's but if ANYTHING
was running at all in the smaller memory setup it clocked at 2.1 to 2.3. I
don't have any explanation for this. The 3 megs of ram in the smaller
config were the same type now installed! Any thoughts on either??? Doug
Could I ask where you found your 80ns static column ram chips? I have not
been able to find a source. Thanks, John