Duration: 35:19

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We add more RAM to our #CommodoreAmiga using a schematic we found on Fred Fish disk #27. Once added, we add a couple of tools from the Amiga Macro assembler disk to allow AmigaDOS to see the RAM. We then copy our tools and code into the RAM: disk, and observe the massive speed increase.

--- Index

00:00 Intro
02:08 Floppy Compile SLOW
04:42 Introducing The Fred Fish Disk Collection
08:05 About the Amiga Memory Map (before AUTOCONFIG)
09:18 The Avail command.
11:00 Plugged in the expansion, still shows 512K, No AUTOCONFIG!
11:40 StartAddress and AddMem, now we see 1.5M of RAM!
14:35 Introducing the RAM: disk!
15:51 Creating our ram-devel script
18:10 Copying Make, MakeSimple, Link to C:
21:28 Fixing ram-devel slightly, oops!
22:10 Executing ram-devel to move everything to RAM:
26:55 Looking at the RAM consumption result
30:08 Compiling one.window in RAM: FAST!
34:00 Conclusion

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