#problem with VD0:
6 messages in this thread
Jim:
My messages are out of sequence, but with regard to your note to John
Lemoine, if MemGuard is the only reason you can't get one of your versions
of VD0: operating properly, jetison MemGuard. The chances on your needing
the protection it affords are remote, assuming you're running VirusX, and
it has the disturbing property (on my machine at least) of forcing the
machine to take a *long* time to reset after I offer the 3 finger salute.
Because of the latter problem, I took it out of the sequence.
Regards Tom
Yes, I got rid of MemGuard and now an ancient (1987) 6Kb version of VD0:
runs (and recovers!) just fine. The latest (1989) 2Kb version refuses to
do anything at all, even with an otherwise-unmodified 1.3 boot disk!
–Jim
I had the same problems when the 2kb version of VD0 first came out!
Finally after some talking to Perry, I came to the conclusion the the
latest VD0 will NOT work on an Amiga 500 with 1 meg of ram (512k chip and
512k of C00000 semi-fast memory) Plain and simple! Way back then I
suggested that the file description here be changed but apparently it never
was.
Since then the 1 meg Agnus has been released and I finally have some REAL
fast memory (but I never got around to trying out the latest vd0) (I'm
using the 6040 byte asdg.device)
So, in summary…….
The latest VD0 (2kb asdg.device) MAY or MAY NOT work on a 1 meg Amiga 500
that has the 1 meg agnus and no fast mem.
It also MAY or MAY NOT work on an Amiga 500 with the 512k agnus with fast
mem OTHER than C00000 memory.
Again…a 1 meg Amiga 500 (512k chip and a A501 512k expander will NOT work
with the 2kb version of Asdg.device! You must use the 6040 byte version!
Sysops….can we get that description changed in the library???
later!
Thank you! It's about time somebody has the same problem!
Everybody I talked to at my last user group meeting couldn't get it to work
on a 500 either, but everyone here seems to have gotten it to work, except
you and I. Maybe nobody has 500s anymore?
Is there any fix for the problem yet? (Don't look at me, I don't program
in 68000 assembler…)
–Jim
I don't know if the older version of ASDG's VD0: is here in the library.
The difference in the latest one is it's smaller by 4k or so (not a big
deal) Plus, its supposed to clean itself more often than the older version.
Since I haven't run the latest I'm not sure what other benefits there are!
later!
I'm sure that the latest version of ASDG's VD0: would be in their library
over in AmigaVendor.
.Betty