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Subject says it all really

Have been running VARPC-SE, for nearly 5 months without problem, on my MD Alpha, I downloaded and installed the Network upgrade a few days ago, since then RISC OS reports only 18 - 20 Mb free memory at startup, as opposed to 128 Mb prior to the upgrade, is this a significant fact, ie does the upgrade really use 108 Mb of memory, or has something gone wrong in the emulation?

Everything else appears to function correctly, by the way.

73 de John

I've a similar problem. New machine/install though

on a 512Mb machine RISC OS only has 32Mb! Even on my RISC PC's I have 64Mb+ so 32Mb is a bit limiting.

After some guess work I've found a few files at
C:\Program Files\VirtualAcorn\VirtualRPC-SE\Models\Arm7 RISC OS 4 (JIT)
The one called model.cfg seems to be the location of the options.

Opening this in notepad shows a couple of size=16Mb lines under two differant [Ram] headings.

I suspect changing these two will increase the memory, but I'd rather not experiment as VirtualRPC is rather flakey already! (ifconfig is broken, time is stuck 4 hours in the past etc)

Why guess? It's all documented in the manual.


That's it. Worked for me.

So it is, Appendix 2 - Advanced configuration

That'l teach me to read the manual!