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[_ThEcRoW]

Hello guys, i'm in the need of a ram disk, because i want to try certain software, but it surpasses the limit size of a floppy, but isn't big enough for a hard drive, so with 1 or 2 meg i will be ok. I have 4mb on the ste, and heard that there exists software that can enable a ram disk for use on the Atari.
Can you reccomend any that is easy to tune up and that works well?.
Thanks in advance!!!

[DarkLord]

The Essential software list at AtariForum has a couple listed on its page, about halfway down:

http://www.atari-for...hp?f=14&t=16525

HTHs.

[ggn]

Maxidisk is a very good one, reset resident and compresses data while it copies them, this was quite handy when I only had a 1mb machine.

This page also has a very good ramdisk, which utilises the blitter for transfers, making it quite fast (and I assume that since you have lots of ram, you couldn't care less about compression )

[_ThEcRoW]

Thanks a lot for the replies!!!. Will try them asap.
Cheers!

[jens]

The probably fastest RAM disk is the Luftschloß featured in 'Scheibenkleister'.
I also tried another one which felt about as fast, but I don't know how to find it anymore.
Flexdisk might be a solution as well, but I don't know where to find it.

Luftschloß wouldn't work on my Falcon when I last tried it. Don't know about STe although I think I tried it effortlessly on my Mega/STe.