Hi all,
I was wondering why the basic instruction "call memini" gives a disk ram of 32kbytes on
turboR or MSX2+ with 512kb while it gives a size of 90kb on a 128kb msx2 ?
is there a way to allocate more ram for memini on TurboR ?
PS: i want to use it as cache for pictures have them faster than from Floppy and load all of them
once ...
Well, I cannot give an answer to your question, but may I suggest not to use that build-in Ramdisk? it's very slow. And I do mean really very very slow, at least when I used it on my VG-8235 some decades ago. It would be a lot faster to use another ramdisk utility, as djh1697 suggests...
From MSX2 Technical Handbook:
On MSX1 RAM from 0000H to 7FFFH was used only by DOS. On MSX2, however, this
portion can be used as a RAM disk of up to 32K bytes.
That is, the RAM disk provided by CALL MEMINI is limited to 32K, no matter how many mapped memory you have in your computer. If you want to use more memory from BASIC you need to use either the DOS 2 RAM Disk, or any external tool such as NestorBASIC.
