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  • File size in 128K RAM diskHi Folks, Is there a way to get the size of a file stored in the 128K RAM disk from within a BASIC program? Many thanks Paddy

    Hi Folks,

    Is there a way to get the size of a file stored in the 128K RAM disk from within a BASIC program?

    Many thanks

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Residos - Shared Disk QueryHi all, I want to create a shared disk under residos, Garry's explanation he gives in his documentation concerning creating 'shared' disks I find so…

    ... want to create a shared disk under residos, Garry's explanation ... 50% to IDEDOS and 50% disk space for fat filesystem.
    Fill ...
    Hercules Hercules October 2009 Hardware
  • I want to install Linux on my old laptopA question from a Linux rookie. I want to make my another attempt to learn and possibly like Linux. I'm afraid to install it on my main desktop co…

    ... , 256 Mb of RAM, and 10 Gb of hard disk space.

    Ralf Ralf March 2010 Chit chat
  • Spectaculator CrashingHi Folks, Bit of an odd one this - spectaculator keeps on crashing when starting up. The only solution seems to be to uninstall and then reinstall…

    ... 32GB of Ram, an I7 cpu and plenty of hard-disk space.
    KrazyKattapilla KrazyKattapilla May 2018 Emulators
  • Recommend a decent games database manager pls!Seeing how many games are piled up on my disk, and that I seldom get to see the screenshots or inlay scans for a particular game, I was thinking of u…

    ... or XP
    RAM: 16MB Minimum
    Disk Space: 3MB Minimum
    CPU ...
    thx1138 thx1138 August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What's the best emulator......for running under Windows XP? I recently upgraded (grudgingly), aonly to find the emulators I had (Z80, Gleck, RealSpectrum) didn't work, or said …

    ... less than 512 meg of RAM, you don't stand a ... nearly a gig of hard disk space! And the constant need for ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2004 Emulators
  • Which Internet Browser is best?I'm thinking of ditching Internet Explorer, and switching to an alternative, but which one is best; Opera, Firefox or what? I'll be using the browse…

    ... Mb RAM (128 for Windows 2000 Server)
    10 Mb free disk space ...
    VincentAC VincentAC August 2005 Chit chat
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... the 128k models built-in RAM disk using z88dk ;) I mean, you ... new level data from the RAM disk.[/QUOTE]

    Yeah that ... could run on anyone's disk system. I've also thought ... uspeech's memory mapped variable space. Here's an [URL="http ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • seedycan you get CD re-writters for old shit PC's?

    ... how much RAM and hard disk space you have left. 64mb ram and about ... a gig of free space ...
    BruceNorton BruceNorton August 2006 Chit chat
  • New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …

    ... , have lots of ram and gigs of harddisk space.

    Even ... few meg of ram and less then 50mb hard disk space), and with ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …

    ... servers with 1GB RAM allocation and 150GB of virtual disk each, and ... in question has 5GB of RAM, but it's still a ... , but 1gb of ram and 150gb of disk space seems a little bloated ... 50mb of disk space and way less then the 1gb of ram your ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …

    ... , but 1gb of ram and 150gb of disk space seems a little bloated ... 50mb of disk space and way less then the 1gb of ram your ... actual data into a 50mb disk? You can't. The OS ... would still need 1GB RAM and 130GB of disk simply to work ...
    Winston Winston May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …

    ... . Because of that bloatware RAM, HDs, CPUs, most ... , all which take memory and disk space.

    You ... 1993, using a 50MB hard disk machine - with a GUI ... system) et al, 16MB RAM and an 80486 CPU. ... of RAM, and fits comfortably in 50MB of hard disk space - ...
    Winston Winston May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …

    ... , all which take memory and disk space.

    You can't ... 1993, using a 50MB hard disk machine - with a GUI, a ... file system) et al, 16MB RAM and an 80486 CPU. It ... 16MB of RAM, and fits comfortably in 50MB of hard disk space - and ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Yesteryear's Computers.Ahhhh ... [URL="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9023960"]back in the day[/URL] when a 300mb system…

    ... at 6MHz with 640K RAM, 10(?) MB hard disk, 3.5" floppy ... 940 with 1.5GB RAM, 0.75TB hard disk space at its disposal ...
    NickH NickH June 2007 Chit chat
  • Alternative chips for upper RAM blockDoes anybody know of a way to use 4464 chips instead of 4164 for the upper RAM block in a 48K machine? If not 4464 then something a little more avai…

    ... 15) and have quadruple redundancy RAM...

    ... planning a daughterboard for RAM replacement and so ... /> Old Amiga motherboards and RAM expansion cards could be a ... a lot of wasted "space" inside the chips, but ... use the extra RAM as a RAM disk of sorts - ...
    DEATH DEATH August 2007 Hardware
  • Got my mac mini and I'm in loveI have had it for about 2 days now and it is the 2nd best piece of computer equipment i have had, it is quieter then my dvd HD recorder i have been s…

    ... on a faster CPU, more RAM, extra disk space, etc. or just pocket ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2007 Chit chat
  • One game which made you change computersWas there any game (or games) that made you think 'thats it, the times up with the Speccy, time to move on' and get an Amiga or ST back in the late 8…

    ... music on the PP menu disk was stunning too, still ... with 520MB HDD and 8MB ram had been returned by ... the money on some actual RAM), plus he had run ... to "double" your hard disk space by compressing the shite out ... well as a drop more RAM. Happy days!

    ...
    Womble Womble February 2008 Games
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... and managing them from/to disk rather than SRAM. Would ... better to use S-RAM for task manager because ... to use S-RAM as well as disk space for task manager ... between applications normally S-RAM is used and if ... t enough S-RAM to store in it disk space can be ( ...
    ingo ingo April 2008 Development
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... to use S-RAM as well as disk space for task manager ... between applications normally S-RAM is used and if ... t enough S-RAM to store in it disk space can be ( ... there is not much of space left in SRAM. We ... store tasks on MB02+ virtual disk (so not on FAT16, ...
    Hood Hood April 2008 Development
  • Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…

    ... most sensible configuration for the RAM is 4,5,6,3 ... uses page 1 for the RAM disk.[/QUOTE]

    Using one ... of the special RAM-only configurations tends to make ... use a full 64K address space at one time.
    glancaster glancaster July 2009 Development
  • resident evil zxi thought i might write a text adventure based on the first resident evil game. i'd be happy to map the thing out and write all the code/ text and t…

    ... perhaps even tap into the RAM disk for extra space?)... Just a thought... ;)
    kgmcneil kgmcneil October 2009 New game ideas
  • resident evil zxi thought i might write a text adventure based on the first resident evil game. i'd be happy to map the thing out and write all the code/ text and t…

    ... even tap into the RAM disk for extra space?)... Just a thought... ;)[/QUOTE ...
    mile mile October 2009 New game ideas
  • resident evil zxi thought i might write a text adventure based on the first resident evil game. i'd be happy to map the thing out and write all the code/ text and t…

    ... even tap into the RAM disk for extra space?)... Just a thought... ;)[/QUOTE ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 October 2009 New game ideas
  • PC in a spectrum 48k bodyHow hard do you think this would be, here i found some one who managed to make one into a linux running pc but im think windows. He used some quite n…

    ... to make it fit available space & do what you want ... definition & in general more disk space, RAM & CPU power (and it ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie December 2010 Hardware
  • Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.

    ... memory, not just the UDG space.

    D.[/QUOTE]
    RAM disk and swap as required to ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • My little project with my netbook. Idea's wantedOk i didnt know where to put this on the forum so i thought i would put it here and if the mods want too they can move it...anyway..... I wanted a s…

    ... /> Iv prepared a number of disk images using Avira's NTFS4DOS ... you to create a virtual ram disk assigned to an arbitary drive ... drive in RAM, dumps the Zip file into that virtual space, dumps ... interfere) and neat organization of disk image files for my DOS ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil February 2011 Chit chat
  • A thousand core CPU?Maybe this is old news to most people on here, but according to: [url]http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2010/12/25/intel-why-a-1000-core-chi…

    ... RAM.
    Hard Disk: 1.2 gigabytes (GB) of free hard disk space.
    Hard Drive Space: 1.2 GB free space needed to install ... GB
    Memory: 256 MB RAM
    Other: Internet Connection, DVD ... /> 64 MB
    Hard Drive Space:
    3700 MB
    Other ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2011 Chit chat
  • Paging memoryI've been thinking about a possibility of paging blocks of memory to and from disk. Imagine dividing usable 32KB of Speccys RAM (why do they call it …

    ... and used the virtual ram just when needed...[/QUOTE]< ... PC's; "use virtual RAM as needed", and I ... orders of magnitude faster than disk space. And advancing technology is ... By all means use more RAM to speed up code. ... set' must fit in RAM at all times. And when ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie October 2011 Development
  • Laptop questionsOur teenage daughters christmas present is going to be a laptop. I'm a little lost on what kind of processors and gfx(cards?) these need to have to b…

    ... />
    CPU: 2GHz P4
    RAM: 1GB (1.5GB for Vista ... : Windows XP SP2
    Free Disk Space: 6.1 GB + 1 GB ...
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2011 Chit chat
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