Guest agent.m Posted March 28, 2003 Report Posted March 28, 2003 back in the day when i had an amiga some smart person made a program which tircked thr computer to think it had doubled the ram ie 2mb turned to 4mb which meant i could play certain games i couldnt before and there was a speed increase. just thought if anyone thought about making a simular app for spv. or a virtual memory ;) maybe smartsnes and gnuboy would work better?????????? maybe not but its just an idea :lol:
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted March 28, 2003 Report Posted March 28, 2003 As I've never had an amiga :lol: I have not heard of this before, but i like the idea
Guest Palindrome Posted March 28, 2003 Report Posted March 28, 2003 I had a RAM doubler on my Amiga. The only problem was the fact it only changed the readout, not the actual RAM capacity, thus the fact that it 'tricked' the Amiga into thinking it had a sizeable memory boost. I can't really see what good that would do for my SPV, apart from showing it off to all the SPVx users and my mates.
Guest agent.m Posted March 29, 2003 Report Posted March 29, 2003 my dreams are shattered :lol: think about some of the ziosoft games such as fifa etc that wouldnt work. a virtual memory taking space from sd/mmc would be cool if possible dont you think????
Guest casper508 Posted March 29, 2003 Report Posted March 29, 2003 Not sure if i remember this correctly but in the 286/386 days there was a program called Stacker. I think it did something similar. It doubled the hard disk size for sure and i think there was some feature to increase the RAM size as well. And yes it did run very slow. Cas
Guest yatpeak Posted March 29, 2003 Report Posted March 29, 2003 How does tricking a computer into thinking it has twice the ram help you do anything? Without the ram, no matter how much the phone thinks it has, it can't use extra, can it? Thanks, Wyatt
Guest midnight Posted March 29, 2003 Report Posted March 29, 2003 nope, it was just needed on the amiga cos some programs checked to see how much ram was available before running, and so you could 'trick' the program into running, it usually ran like a pig if at all, but in some cases it worked.
Guest fraser Posted March 29, 2003 Report Posted March 29, 2003 I'm surprised the Amiga one worked at all. It doesn't have swap memory space, so if a program actually tried to access any on the nonexistant memory, it would have an "out of memory" error.
Guest Charlie Mouse Posted March 30, 2003 Report Posted March 30, 2003 There were some programs like this available for PC's like Casper508 said. I think they worked by doing some compression stuff on the RAM effectively doubling the amount of ram available. I think it slowed the RAM access time down due to the time taken to perform the compression/expansion but it did work. I could be completely wrong on this though as it was years ago...
Guest frijj2k Posted March 31, 2003 Report Posted March 31, 2003 RAM Doublers dynamically compress/de-compress the data on the fly thus effectively doubling your ram. The downside is that the compression requires CPU cycles which makes your computer (or phone in out case run slower than usuall). This doesnt matter on a fast PC (Although ram is that cheap now theres no need to run such apps) but on the SPV I can see it making an already slow phone slower. Other available ram increasing programs dont even compress the data but instead just defragment the memory and remove any unused processes. As for using the SD card and virtual memory. It would be too slow I believe but coulbe be used as clipboard storage space or for virtual memory in programs that do need to page a lot to disk (or SD) and dont have to do it very often. Dave :wink:
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