I have a rom 1 IIGS with a 4mb expansion card and I'm trying to get a music program called Sonix to work with it. I'm using Floppy Emu rev B to load the image. I get past the initial ProDos 8 title screen then it shows this memory error:
"Allocate 0101
***MEMORY ERROR***
Must be user #1
De-allocate all managed memory "
Then it gives me a command prompt and I don't know how to proceed. Any help would be appreciated.
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Not intentionally, I'm new to the forum, please see edited post.
[quote=Ahow77]I have a rom 1 IIGS with a 4mb expansion card and I'm trying to get a music program called Sonix to work with it. I'm using Floppy Emu rev B to load the image. I get past the initial ProDos 8 title screen then it shows this memory error: "Allocate 0101 ***MEMORY ERROR*** Must be user #1 De-allocate all managed memory " Then it gives me a command prompt and I don't know how to proceed. Any help would be appreciated.[/quote]
Remove the 4MB RAM card and try without it.
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[quote=Ahow77]I have a rom 1 IIGS with a 4mb expansion card and I'm trying to get a music program called Sonix to work with it. I'm using Floppy Emu rev B to load the image. I get past the initial ProDos 8 title screen then it shows this memory error: "Allocate 0101 ***MEMORY ERROR*** Must be user #1 De-allocate all managed memory " Then it gives me a command prompt and I don't know how to proceed. Any help would be appreciated.[/quote]
Remove the 4MB RAM card and try without it.
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He's not going to have much memory without that expansion in there. Although in P8 I guess its not such a big deal. I'd try reseating the RAM on the expansion card. Also give it the onboard diag test, ctl-o apl-reset..
[quote=Ahow77]Not intentionally, I'm new to the forum, please see edited post.[/quote]
Thats better, I can read your thoughts now :)
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/sonix
Says it needs 1mb you'll need to have the 4mb card in to use it. Out of interest, can you get anything that uses more memory to load? GS/OS and an application for arguments sake?
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http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/sonix
Says it needs 1mb you'll need to have the 4mb card in to use it. Out of interest, can you get anything that uses more memory to load? GS/OS and an application for arguments sake?
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If it is a 4MB board that has removable memory he should try removing all that can be, and trying the board with minimum increments of memory using different chips/SIMMs if possible.
Also running a memory test program would be a good idea. I think AE made one for their GS memory card. It might work with others. There may be other diagnosics software that can do it as well.
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Also running a memory test program would be a good idea. I think AE made one for their GS memory card. It might work with others. There may be other diagnosics software that can do it as well.
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Sounds like a good theory, I was going for keep it simple first up.. on said board you can probably play with 1Mb increments and test it one bank at a time. The onboard tests ought to test the extended card memory also, although the AE Diag should probably show a specific chip or bank..
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[quote=softwarejanitor]
Also running a memory test program would be a good idea. I think AE made one for their GS memory card. It might work with others. There may be other diagnosics software that can do it as well.
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Sounds like a good theory, I was going for keep it simple first up.. on said board you can probably play with 1Mb increments and test it one bank at a time. The onboard tests ought to test the extended card memory also, although the AE Diag should probably show a specific chip or bank..
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The AE RAM test for their //e boards for sure does graphically show which chip it believes is bad. The graphic representation of course might not be accurate to the layout of a non-AE board, but it might still be useful to figure out which bank/chip/SIMM might be the issue. I haven't tried their IIGS stuff as I have less experience with the IIGS in general and the one that I have has an Apple RAM card in it, which I've never had any reason to suspect so I've never run any tests on it. But their stuff was generally top notch so I suspect it should work similarly to the //e utilities which are very nice.
[quote=softwarejanitor]
The AE RAM test for their //e boards for sure does graphically show which chip it believes is bad. The graphic representation of course might not be accurate to the layout of a non-AE board, but it might still be useful to figure out which bank/chip/SIMM might be the issue. I haven't tried their IIGS stuff as I have less experience with the IIGS in general and the one that I have has an Apple RAM card in it, which I've never had any reason to suspect so I've never run any tests on it. But their stuff was generally top notch so I suspect it should work similarly to the //e utilities which are very nice.
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I've never seen any AE software for the GS to be honest. I'll have to poke about and have a look.
Thanks for your replies! The ram expansion card I have is this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-IIgs-4-MB-RAM-Expansion-Low-Power-New-201...
I've run other programs that require more than 256K of ram (like Master Tracks Pro - 1mb) without any issues.
The only diagnostic program I currently have on my Floppy Emu SD card is A2gsDiagnostics, which just tells me that my ram expansion is the wrong size (because it's not 512K, 1mb, etc). I need to get a new SD card reader so I can download some different diagnostic programs and give one of them a try. I feel fairly confident though that the ram is good, being that it's new and was supposed to be tested before it was shipped out; and because I haven't this problem with any other programs.