T.DISKOVERY 17
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FILENAME(S): T.DISKOVERY 17
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. D I S K O V E R Y :
THE REALITIES OF RAM..
BY FENDER TUCKER... WHE
N THE 128 FIRST CAME OUT, 128K OF RAM SO
UNDED PRETTY GOOD -- AND IT.WAS. JUST A
BOUT EVERYTHING WAS 8-BIT IN THOSE DAYS
AND EVEN THOUGH IT.SOUNDED IMPOSSIBLE TO
SQUEEZE 128,000 BYTES INTO A SYSTEM THA
T COULD ONLY.COUNT UP TO 65535, THE C-12
8 COULD DO IT. BUT OF COURSE WE WEREN'T
.SATISFIED. WE WANTED 512K OF RAM LIKE
THE IBM PEOPLE. SO RAM EXPANSION.UNITS
(REUS) WERE INVENTED. THESE WORKED PRET
TY GOOD FOR MAJOR SYSTEMS LIKE.GEOS, OR
FOR INGENIOUS, DEDICATED, ONE-PROGRAM CO
MPANIES LIKE BUSY BEE, WHO.MAKES THE WRI
TE STUFF WORD PROCESSOR. BUT WE SOON FO
UND THAT UNLESS THE.SOFTWARE PRODUCER SP
ECIFICALLY WROTE CODE WITH AN REU IN MIN
D, THE REU.WOULDN'T WORK. AS A RAM DISK
, THEY WERE USELESS BECAUSE WHEN YOU TUR
NED THE.POWER OFF, EVERYTHING IN THEM WA
S LOST... AS AN EDITOR I HAVE THE PO
WER TO INSIST THAT PROGRAMMERS I WORK WI
TH.ADD OR SUBTRACT CODE AS I SEE FIT. I
SUPPOSE I COULD FORCE THE WONDERFUL.PEO
PLE WHO WRITE THE PROGRAMS FOR LOADSTAR
128 TO INCLUDE REU SUPPORT -- BUT.NOT IF
I WANTED TO MAKE A DEADLINE. BEFORE YO
U CAN WRITE CODE THAT WORKS.WITH AN REU
YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN REU, AND AS WE ALL R
EMEMBER, REUS WERE VERY.HARD TO COME BY
FOR SEVERAL YEARS. ALSO, RAMDOS, THE ML
CODE THAT MAKES AN.REU POSSIBLE, IS NOT
EASY TO WORK WITH UNLESS YOU ARE AN ML
WIZARD. VERY.FEW PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO SUP
PORT AN REU IN THEIR CODE. I'M NOT ONE
OF THEM... SO THE 16-BIT AND 32-BIT
WORLD LEFT US COMMODOREANS BEHIND. THEY
.STARTED TALKING IN MEGABYTES, RATHER TH
AN KILOBYTES. THEY STARTED PRODUCING.SO
FTWARE THAT DID THE SAME THING AS OLD 8-
BIT SOFTWARE BUT NOW IT TAKES UP.FIVE TI
MES AS MUCH DISK SPACE. WHAT DID THEY C
ARE, THEY HAD HARD DRIVES.WHICH BEGAN IN
CHING UP FROM 20-MEG TO 40-MEG TO 200-ME
G... THIS BOTHERED ME NOT AT ALL BEC
AUSE I KNEW THAT IN REAL LIFE MY C-128.W
OULD DO WHAT I WANTED IT TO DO, AND ONLY
NEED KILOBYTES, NOT MEGABYTES. .BUT WHA
T ABOUT OUR $200 REUS? ARE THEY TO BE R
ELEGATED TO THE DOORSTOP.PILE, SIMPLY BE
CAUSE IT'S TOO COMPLICATED TO WRITE CODE
THAT SUPPORTS THEM?.. THE ANSWER IS
NO. THANKS TO CREATIVE MICRO DESIGNS,
INC. YOUR REU CAN.BE USED AS A RAM DISK
WITHOUT ANY PROGRAMMING EXPERTISE. RAML
INK HAS A SLOT.FOR AN REU SO JUST BY PLU
GGING IT IN, YOU ADD THE REU'S RAM TO YO
UR SYSTEM. .BY USING CMD'S GEOMAKEBOOT Y
OU CAN CREATE A 1581 PARTITION ON RAMLIN
K SO.GEOS IS IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. BEC
AUSE IT'S ALL IN RAM, GEOS APPLICATIONS.
ARE FAST AND MAC-LIKE. WITH A BATTERY-B
ACKUP NOTHING IS LOST WHEN YOU POWER.DOW
N FOR THE NIGHT. IF YOU HAVE HUNDREDS O
F PROGRAMS, GET ONE OF CMD'S HARD.DRIVES
, WHICH CAN BE CONFIGURED TO HAVE HUNDRE
DS OF MEGABYTES JUST LIKE THE.BIG BOYS..
. AS A PROGRAMMER, I MAINLY APPRECIA
TE MY 3-MEG RAMLINK BECAUSE I CAN.LOAD A
ND SAVE ANY PROGRAM INSTANTANEOUSLY. I
CAN SAVE 30 OR 40 VERSIONS OF.MY PROGRAM
IN PROGRESS WITHOUT SWAPPING DISKS. IT
SAVES ME TIME. IF I WERE.A USER, IT WO
ULD SAVE ME EVEN MORE TIME. MY REU FINA
LLY HAS A USE... IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE
A TESTIMONIAL FOR CREATIVE MICRO DESIGN
S, IT.SHOULD. THANKS TO THEM YOUR 128 I
S STILL ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE IBMS, A
T.LEAST THE ONES THAT SELL FOR UNDER $20
00. YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO SEE.WHAT
LIFE IS LIKE WITH A RAMLINK HOOKED TO YO
UR SYSTEM...* * * * *
* * * * * * *
*.. I'M ON THE MAILING LIST OF M
ANY USERS' GROUPS AND IT'S COMFORTING TO
.SEE THAT C-128 SYSTEMS ARE STILL READIL
Y AVAILABLE AT REASONABLE PRICES. I.USE
D TO WONDER WHAT I WOULD DO IF MY C-128D
SPRUNG A LEAK. OF COURSE THESE.ARE USE
D SYSTEMS THAT ARE FOR SALE, BUT THANKS
TO COMMODORE, USED 128.SYSTEMS ARE ALL T
HERE ARE. IF YOUR 128 IS ON ITS LAST LE
GS, FOR REASONS.OTHER THAN JUST NON-WORK
ING CHIPS, CHECK THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, S
HOPPERS'.NEWS, AND NEWSLETTERS FOR GOOD
DEALS ON USED 128S. I BOUGHT ONE WITH T
WO.1571S AND A 2002 MONITOR FOR UNDER $4
00...* * * * * *
* * * * * * *..
LAST ISSUE I ASKED READERS TO LOOK
AROUND THE BULLETIN BOARDS FOR GOOD.128
SOFTWARE THAT COULD BE IMPROVED AND PLAC
ED ON LOADSTAR 128. I GUESS THE.WORD GO
T AROUND TO AT LEAST ONE MASTER PROGRAMM
ER, BECAUSE E. G. BELL SENT.ME A TERRIFI
C PROGRAM CALLED MAGIC 128. ONE OF ITS
DOZENS OF FUNCTIONS IS.EDITING THE DIREC
TORY OF DISKS, BUT THAT'S HARDLY A COMPL
ETE DESCRIPTION OF.IT. IT'S 100 BLOCKS
OF 100% MACHINE CODE THAT EVERY POWER US
ER WILL WANT TO.HAVE. E. G., WHO USES U
PPER CASE LETTERS IN HIS PROGRAMS, IF NO
T IN HIS.NAME, KNOWS HIS STUFF AND I'M P
LEASED TO ADD HIM TO THE LIST OF WIZARDS
WHO.ARE PUBLISHED ON LS 128... BUT
WE'RE NOT ALL POWER USERS, ARE WE? JANE
JONES, FROM DOWNUNDER, HAS.SENT ME A NI
FTY PROGRAM THAT TAKES CARE OF MANY OF T
HE DAY-TO-DAY DISK.ACTIVITIES THAT WE AL
L MUST DO. AUTOPRO-80 TAKES CARE OF AUT
O-BOOTING, TOO... IF YOU FIND THAT H
OME REFINANCER ON THIS ISSUE WAS REVEALI
NG ABOUT HOW.EXPENSIVE HIGH INTEREST LOA
NS CAN BE, WAIT TILL YOU SEE WHAT LOAN.A
CCELERATOR HAS TO SAY. IT'S THE SECOND
OF AL VEKOVIUS' BRAINSTORMS THAT.I'M PRO
UD TO PUBLISH ON LOADSTAR 128, ESPECIALL
Y IN THESE DAYS OF ECONOMIC.RECESSION...
RICK FERREIRA IS WORKING ON A NEW B
ASIC 8 GAME BUT I'D BETTER NOT GO.INTO D
ETAILS ABOUT IT -- HE MAY CHANGE THE WHO
LE PREMISE BEFORE IT'S DONE... THERE
WILL BE MORE, OF COURSE. ONE OF THE BE
NEFITS OF A QUARTERLY.MAGAZINE OVER A MO
NTHLY IS THAT I HAVE MORE TIME TO JUGGLE
THE PROGRAMS SO.THAT YOU GET THE VERY B
EST OF WHAT WE HAVE EVERY ISSUE. MAYBE
A FUTURE.LOADSTAR 128 WILL HAVE ONE OF Y
OUR PROGRAMS ON IT?..
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