Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!gatech!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekig!tekig4!brianr From: brianr@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Transformer Message-ID: <1644@tekig4.TEK.COM> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 20:08:56 EDT Article-I.D.: tekig4.1644 Posted: Tue Jul 7 20:08:56 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 00:52:23 EDT Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or. Lines: 39 A week or so ago, I bought an external 5.25" drive for my Amiga 1000, chiefly so that I could use the Transformer software which comes with the drive to run some IBM-ish programs that I use occasionally. I know they'll run very slowly under Transformer, but they're not worth paying more for a Sidecar than the price of a clone. Though I am using disks patched for Workbench 1.2 by the people in the computer store, and even though these disks work fine in the store's A1000 and A500, when I try to use the Transformer in my machine, it doesn't work. At the point where Transformer prints up the current IBM system configuration and options settings, just prior to plunging into 8086-land, the ammount of memory listed as being available for DOS is 9K. On the store's machines, there is upwards of 300K available. My configuration is the Amiga 1000, with CMA's Kickstart Eliminator kit, and the Insider 1Meg memory expansion. It occurred to me that the IBM emulator might be fastening upon the 256K WCS ram bank freed by the Kickstart Eliminator, (which is not contiguous with the rest of my machine's memory) for use as the "IBM"s main memory. If that was so, there might well be only 9K left over. To test this, I lifted the pin of the PAL which supplies the WR* strobe to the WCS ram bank, and strapped the WCS' WR* line HIGH. By using a debugger, I verified that my tampering had indeed "denatured" the WCS ram, but the Transformer program still wouldn't run, and it STILL claimed that it only had 9K of memory to work with. Has anyone else had a similar experience, or, better still, a helpful suggestion? Thanks in advance, Brian Rhodefer ...tektronix!tekig4!brianr