Ram Disk not saving Amiga 500

[oundfire99]

Been ages buying and trying different things to get my A500 working. It boots in Work Bench 1.3.2 and has the expandable ram (trap door) fitted. My aim is to get Octamed 4 working (which I did manage once). Other times it comes up with errors. But the main issue I am having is, trying to save Octamed to the ram disk, there's room and it seems to save, but when I turn off and on again nothing in the ram disk I have read the manual but can't find this prob anywhere. Any ideas would be appreciated. - J

 

[ajk]

But... that is how the RAM Disk is supposed to work. It's volatile memory and will only hold its contents while the power is on. You can set up a "RAD" disk which will survive a soft reset, but it will still be cleared once the power is turned off.

Perhaps what you want is a hard drive?

 

[KBQ]

Yeah thats what they do mate. It's a temporary place where you put stuff you don't want to keep after you're done with them.

 

[oundfire99]

Gotcha thanks Good shout with HDD, do you know if I can use an SD adapter and still use the floppy drive, be good to load up all my old games and samples on floppies still

 

[ajk]

You can have both a hard drive and a floppy drive, but with the A500 there is no provision for a hard drive directly on the motherboard so you'll need to look into a suitable expansion. There are all kinds available, some external which connect to the side slot, others internal which connect to the 68000 CPU. Search here on these forums, or Google, or YouTube to see various solutions and see what is best for you

 

[Sardine]

For ease of use (and not having to open the amiga) get an ACA500+

simply plugs into the side expansion port and you have dual compact flash card support, 8mb fast ram , up to 42 mhz 68000 + patches the amiga system ROM for you and includes 1.3 or 3.1 kickstarts and even the workbench install floppy disks in virtual drives to install workbench + many other features. perfect for WHDload .

for a bit of a challenge for the novice there is the option to open the amiga and fit one of many plug in boards (sits in where the CPU goes) to give you Fast ram, faster cpu, IDE etc,,, a bit more stricky to get all installed but can work out a bit cheaper and it's all internally fitted.

or you can go for gold and get a Vampire 500 V2+ and get AGA chipset through HDMI. 128mb fast ram and a cpu that outperforms an 060@100mhz.. play quake on an A500 but then the budget and waiting list is quite large.
Updated all the time with new features etc.

 

[oundfire99]

Thanks for your answers... Gives me things to think about. I was looking up the floppy drive emulators too, so many options.
Been reading up on you suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr2HK_rurho currently out of stock thanks for heads up though.