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- Subject: Re: [hatari-devel] TOS memory check and initial wait are disabled if 14MB ST-RAM are selected in Falcon mode on Hatari 2.6.1
- From: "Roger Burrows" <anodyne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:43:28 -0400
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On 9 Sep 2025 at 22:28, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 09/09/2025 à 20:48, Frank Danapfel a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just noticed that when booting a Falcon with TOS 4.0.4 on the current
> development version of Hatari 2.6.1 the initial memory check and wait after a
> cold-boot are automatically disabled if 14MB ST-RAM are selected.
> >
> > When selecting 4MB instead (keeping all other settings in Hatari the same)
> and doing a cold-boot the initial memory check and wait happens like on the
> real hardware (on real HW the initial memory check and wait also happens if a
> 14MB memory card is intalled in the Falcon).
> >
> > Is this intentional?
> >
>
> Hi
>
> I think this is on purpose because 14 MB is not a real memory
> configuration that you can get on a plain Falcon (without any kind of
> additionnal board).
>
> To detect/use this non standard amount of RAM, tos must be patched (by
> hatari) and this also speeds up the boot process.
>
I'm pretty sure that no patch is required to run 14MB on a Falcon. The first
add-on board for my Falcon was a CentRAM 14, and there were no patches to TOS!
Roger