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#PS Questions

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#179198From: Carson TylerDec 20, 1994 9:50 PM
Hi Rob! I've got an A2000 with an 030 card, 2091 controller and 9 megs RAM. Chip RAM is a single meg, and I've been lax getting it upgraded with a MegaChip or something. After PS loads, I've got about a half meg left in Chip RAM, actually about 600k if it's the only program running. As I said, I wanna add another meg Chip RAM and at least 20 megs total RAM. I keep getting the "out of memory!" message when importing more than a couple scanned photos at 2-300k each, more for color. It doesn't seem like the program accesses all the RAM available to it. 9 megs ain't a bunch, but it isn't too shabby either. I suppose it's because the program reserves memory for printing, or it has to use FAST RAM or something, right? I'd love to know what upgrades to make. Thanks for the help and info! Regards, Carson T
#179320From: John M. CollierDec 21, 1994 1:31 PM
Carson, On the memory problem, you could get Gigamem, a virtual memory manager for the Amiga. It will let you use your HD as extra computer memory. It's slow but workable, I used it alot on my A3000 and now on my A4000 for Pagestream (even though the A4000 has 24megs of ram). The faster the hard drive you have (or use for the Gigamem) the faster it will work. Hope that helps. John
#179369From: gary ludwickDec 21, 1994 8:38 PM
Re: Gigamem As I just found out, it ONLY works on Amiga's with an MMU. Gary on AutoPilot from Charlotte, NC
#179463From: Robert KehlDec 22, 1994 6:27 PM
Hi Carson! What you really should do, is upgrading to 2Megs of Chipram. I haven`t done either, but I do not mess around with colored things in PS, because I have no possibility to print colors… Another point would be to close the Workbench while PS is running (see New Uploads for CloseWB, for example), this saves a bit of ChipRam, too. Rob. Message composed by Otto Pilot